Tataru announces that Romania will not enter a new “blockade”: “If we impose restrictions, we impose them locally”



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Health Minister Nelu Tătaru declared on Saturday that this is not a blockade in Romania due to the new coronavirus, but additional restrictions will be imposed, depending on the epidemiological evolution in counties or localities.

“The situation is getting worse across the country and across Europe. We see that we have cases, going from 50,000 a day in France, to 26,000 in the United Kingdom, 21,000 in Italy, 20,000 in Spain. There are wave evolutions. two, that we stick to the first wave of us. Let’s not think so much about the holidays, let’s think about next week. As you know, we evaluate each location separately. If we impose restrictions, we impose them on We have that assessment 48 hours after the information received by the DSP at 24 hours, in which the local authorities are the ones that manage the evolution of the 48, imposing restrictions. We will have meetings tomorrow night at the National Intervention Coordination Committee, in which we will also impose additional restrictions, tailored based on the index at the county and local levels.“Tătaru stressed.

Regarding the situation of the modular hospital in Iasi, where there were a series of breakdowns, the minister said that starting next week additional oxygen will be brought in, which will complete the need for 20 intensive care beds, and in ten days it will be functional the 48 beds.

Nelu Tătaru also spoke about the search for solutions for the decongestion of emergency reception units in certain hospitals, where medical staff said that they could no longer cope with the large volume of patients, stating in this context that the method of Quick test.

“We have thought of decongesting these emergency reception units with those rapid antigen tests that will be 43,000 next week, and next week we will have a million tests. The isolated cases in these emergency reception units will be diagnosed quickly, positive or negatively, and then they will go to specific places“Nelu Tătaru declared.

How to Justify Differences in Infections Between Counties

The Health Minister mentioned that the large differences in infections between areas of the country are not related to the amount of tests.

“I care a lot about community transmission. No matter how many tests we do, we will see that the presence in the emergency units, the presence in intensive care, the presence in the infectious disease wards will be the same. These cases are presented in the units of Tested or untested emergency It is the receiving units that have to deal quickly with this uncertainty.me, “the minister explained.

Nelu Tătaru was present, on Saturday, in Vaslui, at a meeting with the prefectural leadership and the management of DSP, on which occasion he made an assessment of the infection situation and treatment capacity in Vaslui county, but also of the situation with regard to extension capacity in intensive care beds.

Currently, there are 20 beds in the COVID-19 support hospital in Bârlad, and the extension capacity is another 30 beds. According to the minister, there is also treatment capacity in Vaslui, through the Regional Emergency Hospital, and the Huşi Municipal Hospital remains in reserve, which will be able to receive patients infected by the new coronavirus in the ATI Department, if the situation requires it .

A total of 5,753 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 were reported, compared to the last report, after testing nationwide.

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