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Vice-prefect Rareş Macrea stated on Wednesday night that health authorities are considering quarantining Sibiu, as a result of the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, according to Agerpres.
TO UPDATE The Psychiatric Hospital „Dr. Gheorghe Preda ”of Sibiu becomes a COVID-19-support hospital, according to the decision on Wednesday of the local County Committee for Emergency Situations (CJSU).
When asked by journalists if he was considering quarantining Sibiu, Sub-prefect Rareş Macrea said: “You realize that we are taking this into account and public health specialists will find the best ways to prevent this sudden evolution in Sibiu. And yes, quarantine is one of the options, but we will not accept it here. The proposals are absolutely technical and the DSP makes them. “
DSP Sibiu director Gabriel Budescu confirmed that he requested the quarantine of the Sibiu municipality.
“The Public Health Directorate at this time did a risk analysis for certain localities in Sibiu County and sent it to the National Center for Public Health for an opinion. (…) Through this risk analysis, yes, it is proposed to quarantine some towns in the county of Sibiu, including the municipality of Sibiu ”, explained Budescu.
Local authorities urgently gathered Wednesday afternoon in a meeting where they decided that the Sibiu Psychiatric Hospital should take care of COVID-19 patients suffering from mental illness.
In Sibiu county hospitals there is no free place in ATI for adults infected with the new coronavirus, only in the Pediatric Clinical Hospital there are four free beds in ATI for cases of children with COVID-19, given that the county has come to have the highest infection rate in Romania, more than 7 per thousand inhabitants.
In all Sibiu County hospitals, there are currently only 24 places in ATI for all COVID-19 patients, most of which are in the County Emergency Clinical Hospital (12), five in the Emergency Hospital Military and Pediatric Clinical Hospital located in Sibiu and two places in Mediaş Municipal Hospital, Sibiu Prefecture spokesperson Andreea Ştefan told Agerpres.
