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Prime Minister Ludovic Orban intervenes in the controversy related to the calculation of the contagion rate in Bucharest compared to a thousand cases, stating that the cumulative rate of new COVID cases per thousand inhabitants is calculated based on the number of people updated weekly by the Population Register. He urged ministers Nelu Tataru and Marcel Vela to “no longer tolerate” that employees of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) provide public information without complying with government decisions.
It is the prime minister’s first reaction to the scandal generated by the supply of contradictory data on the contagion rate in Bucharest by the Institute of Public Health and the Strategic Communication Group.
- “Yesterday there was a debate in the media, here, the Minister of Health, and you, and Minister Vela, and I publicly declared that the number of people in a locality based on which the index is decided is the one that exists in the Population Registries. It is known that weekly, on Mondays, the number of citizens of a locality is updated based on data from the Population Register.
- Why should this index be taken into account? Because this is the closest to reality, because the Population Registry is very clear about who has a domicile, who has a residence in that town. Do not tolerate any more that INSP employees provide public information that does not comply with our decisions.
- That is why we decided together with the Ministry of the Interior to include this very clearly in the annex to the Government Decision so that it is clear that the index is calculated in relation to the population that is updated weekly by the Population Registries ”, said Ludovic Orban, at the beginning of the Government meeting.
We remind you that the Institute of Public Health and the Strategic Communication Group on Tuesday transmitted conflicting data on the infection rate in Bucharest compared to a thousand cases in the last 14 days. The INSP initially transmitted that this rate is 3.11 per thousand inhabitants, while GCS transmitted that this rate is 2.69. Subsequently, the INSP rectified the figure, modified its own report and introduced another column: the incidence reported to the population per household – 2.65, which is close to the same rate transmitted by GCS.
President Klaus Iohannis said Tuesday night that he is waiting for the government to urgently clarify why two government institutions, the Institute of Public Health and the Strategic Communication Group, transmitted conflicting data on Tuesday. “It is strange that two government institutions give different results. In my opinion, there is an urgent need to correlate data between these institutions and I am waiting for the government to clarify these urgent issues,” Iohannis said at a press conference on Tuesday, answering a question. . .
Subsequently, the Minister of Health, Nelu Tătarau, specified that the data provided by the Population Registry, in each locality, regarding domicile are those taken into account for that accumulated index of new cases in the last 14 days reported by thousand inhabitants.
Tataru said that when establishing the incidence per 1000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, outbreaks in residential centers for care and assistance for the elderly, residential centers for children and adults, with and without disabilities, as well as for other vulnerable categories. , including dormitories, boarding schools and hospitals. These details related to the formula for calculating the infection rate were also included in the decision on Wednesday night of the National Committee for Emergency Situations regarding the extension of the state of alert in Romania.
Data released Tuesday by the National Institute of Public Health shows that there are 375 outbreaks of COVID-19 in Romania, totaling almost 3,500 cases of illness, up from those reported last week. Most of them, almost 200, are in hospitals, centers for children and the elderly, and public institutions.
