Explosion of the number of COVID cases in the last 24 hours. Romania has passed the threshold of 4000 daily infections for the first time News, News Romania | Freedom

The Strategic Communication Group announced on Wednesday a new high balance of the COVID epidemic in Romania.

In the last 24 hours, 4,016 new cases of COVID infection were confirmed, after performing 31,318 tests, 18,899 based on the case definition and medical protocol and 12,419 on request.

It is the first time that Romania has exceeded the threshold of 4,000 cases of infection in a single day.

Aside from the recently confirmed cases, after retesting patients who were already positive, 894 people were positively reconfirmed.

Thus, until today, October 14, in Romania 164,477 cases of people infected by the new coronavirus have been confirmed. 122,714 patients were declared cured.

66 deaths from COVID

In the last 24 hours, 66 deaths (38 men and 28 women) were reported, of some patients infected by the new coronavirus, hospitalized in Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Botoșani, Buzău, Călărași, Caraș-Severin, Constanța, Galați, Giurgiu, Gorj, Harghita, Ialomița, Iași, Maramureș, Mehedinți, Olt, Prahova, Sălaj, Sibiu, Suceava, Timiș, Vaslui, Vrancea, Ilfov and Bucharest.

Of these, 1 death was recorded in the age group 30 to 39 years, 1 death in the age category 40 to 49 years, 8 deaths in the age category 50 to 59 years, 14 deaths in the age category age 60 to 69 years, 23 deaths in the age group 70 to 79 years and 19 deaths in the category of over 80 years.

All deaths were in patients with comorbidities.

Most affected counties

The counties in which the 14-day cumulative infection coefficient, reported per 1,000 population, exceeds the 1.5 threshold are as follows:

⦁ Bucharest – 2.82
⦁ Alba – 2.75
⦁ Valcea -2.35
⦁ Iași – 2.15
⦁ Bacău – 2.04
⦁ Neamț – 2.10
⦁ Teleorman – 1.97
⦁ Sălaj – 2.03
⦁ Sibiu – 2.01
⦁ Faces-Severin – 1.71
⦁ Cluj – 1.95
⦁ Brasov – 1.65
⦁ Timiș – 1.65
⦁ Ilfov – 1.52
⦁ Harghita – 1.72
⦁ Prahova – 1.66
⦁ Arad – 1.55
⦁ Dâmbovița – 1.53
⦁ Dolj – 1.59

686 patients admitted to intensive care

In specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 9,439.

In Romania, 15,843 people confirmed with the new coronavirus infection are isolated in their homes and 8,959 people are in institutional isolation.

Additionally, 36,250 people are in home quarantine and 43 people are in institutionalized quarantine.

How the number of new cases and the number of tests performed in recent days has evolved:

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