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Vlad Voiculescu said 167 children are being treated in specialized hospitals for coronavirus cases, 16 of them in the intensive care unit and two connected to a ventilator. The minister reported that the third wave of the epidemic is testing the health system more than ever.
As has been the case in recent weeks, the record for hospitalized coronavirus patients in need of intensive care was broken on Sunday. According to official figures released on Sunday, 13,714 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, 1,456 of them in intensive care units. The minister also mentioned as a characteristic of the third wave that entire families are hospitalized and not only the lives of those who suffer from chronic diseases are at risk, but also those who do not suffer from other diseases.
Vlad Voiculescu said that the number of beds in hospitals treating coronavirus patients has increased in recent days and can now treat 1,600 coronavirus patients in intensive care units. He believed that transporting patients from crowded hospitals to hospitals in less infected regions increases the risk, so efforts are being made to expand hospital capacity in large cities.
According to official data released on Sunday, Romania registered far fewer new infections in the last 24 hours (3,712) than the daily average of the previous two weeks (5,558), and the number of deaths (97) was lower than the daily. average of the previous two weeks (132). However, statistics for the last year indicate that at the end of the week, the numbers are always decreasing, certainly due to a decrease in the number of tests performed and incomplete reports.
Since the outbreak, the number of infected people in Romania (974,375) is close to one million and the number of fatalities has exceeded 24,000.
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