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Timisoara is the third largest city in Romania to enter the red stage due to the increase in the infection rate with Covid-19. The capital and Cluj-Napoca have already closed all their restaurants, cafes and bars, students no longer go to school, but study online, and the mask becomes mandatory in all public spaces.
The Timiş School Inspectorate announced on Wednesday an increase in the number of students and teachers infected with SARS-CoV-2 and who are hospitalized, while Timişoara is expected to enter the red stage, as the infection rate approaches. at 3 per thousand. inhabitants, informs Agerpres.
The infection rate in Timişoara was 2.79 per 1,000 residents on Tuesday, according to Timiş Prefecture.
In just two days the number of students hospitalized with COVID increased from 31 to 51, and of teachers, from 25 to 33. In addition, 11 non-teaching staff are hospitalized, up from nine in the previous report. At the same time, 46 schools and kindergartens entered the red activity scenario, in 10 localities the measure is being taken as a result of exceeding the contagion rate of more than 3 per thousand.
“When the Public Health Directorate notifies us that Timisoara is on the red stage, all schools will ask the County Committee for Emergency Situations to move to the red stage, with activity online. It is clear that we are slowly approaching the stage. Red, of 31 educational units in this scenario (the other day, no) we already reached 47, towards double. respectively 47,983 students and preschoolers (out of a total of 97,409, no.) Most of the educational units in Timişoara are ready to teach on stage online “, said, on Tuesday, the head of the Timiş School Inspectorate, Marin Popescu.
Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, on the red stage after exceeding the rate of 3 per thousand inhabitants
Cluj has the highest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours after Bucharest, with 343. The city of Cluj-Napoca is already on the red stage, along with two other county communes.
The head of the Department of Emergency Situations, Secretary of State Raed Arafat, declared Tuesday night, on Digi24, that 22 municipalities and 15 cities in Romania exceeded the threshold of 3 in the incidence rate of coronavirus cases for every thousand inhabitants. He stressed that an increase in the number of diseases leads to an increase in the number of patients in intensive care and pressure on hospitals and the health system.
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