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COVID-19 case count rises by 315 to 24,045
Another 315 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus have been reported in Romania since the last information, bringing the total case count to 24,045, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) announced on Sunday. As many as 195 COVID-19 patients are in intensive care. Of the people confirmed positive, 16,911 have been declared cured and discharged.
As many as 1,309 people are in institutional quarantine on Romanian territory, and another 76,621 people are isolated at home and under medical monitoring as a result of the outbreak with the novel coronavirus, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs on Sunday.
According to the quoted source, 626,330 tests have been processed nationwide so far.
A number of Romanians 3,531 Romanians abroad have been confirmed as infected with the novel coronavirus, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Sunday.
According to the GCS, of these, there are 1,885 in Italy, 561 in Spain, 107 in France, 817 in Germany, 97 in the United Kingdom, 28 in the Netherlands, 2 in Namibia, 3 in the US, 6 in Austria, 3 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Switzerland, 2 in Turkey, 2 in Iceland and one in each of the following countries: Argentina, Tunisia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Brazil and Sweden.
From the beginning of the pandemic and until now, 115 Romanian citizens abroad have died: 31 in Italy, 19 in France, 43 in the United Kingdom, 9 in Spain, 7 in Germany, 2 in Belgium, one in Sweden, one in Switzerland, one in the US and one in Brazil, the GCS mentioned.
Of the Romanian citizens confirmed with the novel coronavirus, 29 were declared cured: 9 in Germany, 10 in France, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, one in Luxembourg and one in Tunisia.
"These data are obtained by the Romanian diplomatic missions and consular offices abroad, either from the competent authorities of the states of residence, to the extend to which these data are subject to public communication, or directly from the Romanian citizens abroad.
Another 12 people infected with the novel coronavirus have died in Romania in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 1,512, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reported on Sunday.
"Between 20.06.2020 (10:00hrs) and 21.06.2020 (10:00hrs), there have been 12 deaths (8 men and 4 women) recorded of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, who were admitted to hospitals in Arges, Galati, Sibiu, Suceava and Vrancea," the quoted source informs.
Of these, one death was recorded in the 50-59 age category, 2 deaths in the 60-69 age category, 6 in the 70-79 age category and 3 deaths in persons aged over 80.
According to the GCS, all deaths are from patients who had comorbidities.
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban on Sunday evening stated that there is no way to manipulate the data related to the coronavirus cases while accusing of political demagogy the ones who claim otherwise.
"All this political demagogy about how we are manipulating the figures. We are not manipulating any figures. We have a number of laboratories that are accredited, with a testing capacity that we have increased from 500-600 to more than 17,000 tests daily. These laboratories are doing Real Time PCR analyses. These analyses are done according to a methodology and they are being recorded. There is a centralized system where all information is recorded daily and all information is public. Nobody would be able to manipulate this information. Whoever launches such allegations in the public area is not normal. There is no way to manipulate this information. The results from the RT-PCR testing are being communicated to the public. The same is the danger. (...) We have a mortality rate of more than 6 per cent. People die because of this virus. (...) This virus threatens people's health and lives. You cannot play with such things. When you know that this virus can cause someone's death, we must all act together, and we must show solidarity especially with the people who are providing correct information to the public. But slighting the danger systematically and encouraging people not to observe the rules is a very dangerous thing to do because people do follow the leaders and listen to them to not observe the rules while putting their own lives in danger," Orban told Romania TV private television broadcaster.
He criticized the fact that some politicians behave in an irresponsible manner by encouraging people to ignore the rules during this time.
Ludovic Orban underscored that the state of alert will stay in force as long as necessary.
On Sunday the spokesman for the PSD (Social Democratic Party), Lucian Romascanu, said the Government is manipulating the data and hiding the truth with respect to the number of cases with the novel coronavirus.