PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, February 16th, 2022, 1 p.m.

In the last 24 hours, 17.447 new cases of people infected with SARS – CoV – 2 (COVID – 19) were registered, 4.438 less than the previous day. 2.175 of the new 24-hour cases were from re-infected patients, who were tested positive for more than 180 days after the first infection.

The evolution of the new positive cases from the last 7 days can be found in the chart below.

The distribution by counties of the total and new cases can be found in the table below.

Nr. crt. County Number of confirmed Number of newly confirmed cases Incidence recorded at 14 days
1. Alba 49.011 369 19,34
2. Arad 62.594 497 20,30
3. Argeș 68.706 629 18,35
4. Bacău 57.656 181 6,99
5. Bihor 76.236 333 14,93
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 27.850 134 8,28
7. Botoșani 33.848 123 8,16
8. Brașov 98.109 1046 20,16
9. Brăila 28.821 185 9,36
10. Buzău 36.529 391 13,88
11. Caraș-Severin 26.928 238 11,99
12. Călărași 23.646 168 10,41
13. Cluj 138.594 2077 24,50
14. Constanța 105.370 902 20,81
15. Covasna 17.691 178 9,09
16. Dâmbovița 48.497 251 11,16
17. Dolj 64.307 707 14,95
18. Galați 58.224 295 10,32
19. Giurgiu 25.777 170 12,46
20. Gorj 20.321 73 7,38
21. Harghita 20.566 67 6,06
22. Hunedoara 51.970 452 16,11
23. Ialomița 25.013 233 10,64
24. Iași 101.102 532 12,43
25. Ilfov 106.197 677 25,88
26. Maramureș 47.649 143 9,46
27. Mehedinți 19.968 126 8,75
28. Mureș 57.157 588 13,45
29. Neamț 43.662 147 6,73
30. Olt 34.809 406 12,55
31. Prahova 88.725 833 17,31
32. Satu Mare 30.770 184 7,36
33. Sălaj 24.991 92 10,62
34. Sibiu 67.411 418 25,19
35. Suceava 55.785 111 4,65
36. Teleorman 30.787 218 8,74
37. Timiș 135.356 845 24,88
38. Tulcea 19.624 79 9,93
39. Vaslui 34.051 135 6,32
40. Vâlcea 37.662 195 14,44
41. Vrancea 24.390 145 7,50
42. Bucharest 469.833 4626 37,20
43. Abroad** 4.012 3  
44. New cases not allocated by counties  

 

13.511*

-2755  
 TOTAL 2.613.716 17.447  

*Regarding the “new cases not allocated by counties”, we specify that their number is determined by the changes brought to the electronic platform through which the test results for the new coronavirus are reported and centralized. Thus, according to the new methodology, the testing centers directly introduce the results of the tests performed, following that the epidemiological investigation will be performed at the level of the Public Health Directorates and the positive cases will be assigned to the county / locality to which the infected persons belong.

**Regarding the cases from abroad, these are cases of some citizens who came to Romania being infected in other countries. These cases were included in the total number of new cases not allocated by counties.

The coefficient of infections accumulated over 14 days, reported per 1,000 inhabitants is calculated by the Public Health Directorates, at the level of Bucharest Municipality and counties. Below you have the chart based on the reports received by CNCCI from the Public Health Directorates:

Until today, a total of 2.613.716 cases of infection with the new coronavirus (COVID-19) have been registered in Romania on February 16th, of which 95.393 are from re-infected patients, tested positive for more than 180 days days after the first infection.

2.192.453 patients were declared cured.

Apart from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 1.191  people were reconfirmed positively. The distribution by county of these cases can be found in the table below.

 No. Crt. COUNTY Positive samples at retesting
1 ALBA 41
2 ARAD 39
3 ARGEŞ 40
4 BACĂU 13
5 BIHOR 7
6 BISTRIŢA-NĂSĂUD 7
7 BOTOŞANI 5
8 BRAŞOV 25
9 BRĂILA 10
10 BUZĂU 53
11 CARAŞ-SEVERIN 16
12 CĂLĂRAŞI 4
13 CLUJ 33
14 CONSTANŢA 56
15 COVASNA 10
16 DÂMBOVIŢA 7
17 DOLJ 90
18 GALAŢI 18
19 GIURGIU 10
20 GORJ 20
21 HARGHITA 7
22 HUNEDOARA 18
23 IALOMIŢA 13
24 IAŞI 39
25 ILFOV 31
26 MARAMUREŞ 4
27 MEHEDINŢI 5
28         MUREŞ 33
29 NEAMŢ 5
30 OLT 24
31 PRAHOVA 53
32 SATU MARE 4
33 SĂLAJ 3
34 SIBIU 18
35 SUCEAVA 24
36 TELEORMAN 23
37 TIMIŞ 43
38 TULCEA 10
39 VASLUI 5
40 VÂLCEA 12
41 VRANCEA 8
42         BUCHAREST 305
  TOTAL 1.191

Until today, 62.063 people diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died.

Between 15.02.2022 (10:00) – 16.02.2022 (10:00) were reported by the INSP 183 deaths (98 men and 85 women), of which 12 were prior to the reference interval, of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in hospitals in Alba, Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brăila, Brașov, Buzău, Călărași, Caraș-Severin, Cluj, Constanța, Covasna, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Galați, Giurgiu, Gorj, Ialomiţa, Iași, Ilfov, Maramureş, Mehedinți, Mureș, Neamț, Prahova, Sălaj, Sibiu, Suceava, Teleorman, Timiș, Tulcea, Vaslui, Vrancea and Bucharest.

Of the 183 deaths, one was recorded in the 20-29 age group, 5 in the 40-49 age group, 8 in the 50-59 age group, 31 in the 60-69 age group, 72 in the 70-79 age group and 66 in the age group over 80 years.

180 of the registered deaths were of some patients which presented comorbidities, 2 deceased patients didn’t have comorbidities and for one patient no comorbidities have been reported so far.

Out of a total of 183 patients who died, 152 were unvaccinated and 31 were vaccinated. The vaccinated patients were aged between 40-49 and over 80 years. 30 of the deceased patients who were vaccinated presented comorbidities and for one patient no comorbidities were reported so far.

There were reported 12 deaths prior to the reference interval, which occurred in Argeș, Giurgiu, Ialomița, Neamț, Tulcea and Bucharest, 4 in January 2022 and 8 in February 2022.

In the specialized health units, the number of people hospitalized in wards with COVID-19 is 10.050, 365 less than the previous day. Also, 1.156 people are hospitalized at ATI, one less than the day before. Of the 1.156 patients admitted to ATI, 987 aren’t vaccinated.

Out of the total number of hospitalized patients, 619 are minors, 606 being hospitalized in wards, 51 less than the previous day and 13 in ATI, 3 less than the previous day.

Until today, 12.226.206 RT-PCR tests and 8.203.858 rapid antigen tests have been processed nationwide. In the last 24 hours, 24.348 RT-PCR tests were performed (14.272 based on case definition and medical protocol and 10.076 on request) and 49.147 rapid antigen tests.

In Romania, 203.008 people confirmed with the new coronavirus infection are in isolation at home, and 11.020 people are in institutional isolation. Also, 82.144 people are in quarantine at home, and in institutionalized quarantine there are 16 people.

In the last 24 hours, 3.802 calls were registered to the unique emergency number 112 and 338 on TELVERDE line (0800 800 358), open especially for informing citizens.

As a result of the violation of the provisions of Law no. 55/2020 on some measures to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, on February 15th, the police and gendarmes applied 939 sanctions, amounting to 139.575 lei.

We remind the citizens that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has operationalized, starting with 04.07.2020, a TELVERDE line (0800800165) for which violations of the sanitary protection norms can be notified.

The calls are taken over by a dispatcher, in an integrated system, and distributed to the territorial structures for the verification of the notified issues.

Regarding the situation of Romanian citizens in other states, 23.888 Romanian citizens were confirmed as infected with SARS – CoV – 2 (coronavirus): 2,557 in Italy, 16,951 in Spain, 209 in Great Britain, 138 in France, 3,127 in Germany, 99 in Greece, 49 in Denmark, 37 in Hungary, 28 in the Netherlands, 2 in the Namibia, 12 in the USA, 11 in Sweden, 151 in Austria, 22 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 75 in Switzerland , 5 in Turkey, 2 in Iceland, 2 in Belarus, 8 in Bulgaria, 51 in Cyprus, 8 in India, 8 in Ukraine, 14 in United Arab Emirates, 18 in Moldova, 3 in Montenegro, 218 in Ireland, 5 in Singapore, 5 in Tunisia, 14 in the Republic of Korea, 2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 4 in Serbia, 14 in Croatia, 6 in Portugal, 6 in Poland, 2 in Georgia and one each in Argentina, Luxembourg, Malta, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Republic of Congo, Qatar , Vatican, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Slovenia, Russian Federation, Finland, Kuwait, Nigeria and Mexic. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic and until now, 201 Romanian citizens abroad, 40 in Italy, 19 in France, 43 in Great Britain, 60 in Spain, 14 in Germany, 2 in Belgium, 3 in Sweden, 5 in Ireland, 2 in Switzerland, 3 in Austria, one in the USA, one in Brazil, one in the Republic of Congo, one in Greece, one in Iran, one in Poland, one in Bulgaria, one in Nigeria, one in Turkey and one in Croatia have died.

From the Romanian citizens confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus, 798 were declared cured: 677 in Germany, 90 in Greece, 18 in France, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Namibia, one in Luxembourg, one in Tunisia and one in Argentina.

Note: these data are obtained by the Romanian diplomatic missions and consular offices abroad, either from the competent authorities in the states of residence, insofar as these data are subject to public communication, or directly from Romanian citizens abroad.

We remind citizens to consider only the information verified by official sources and to call for recommendations and other information on the line TELVERDE – 0800.800.358. The TELVERDE number is not an emergency number, it is a telephone line strictly assigned to inform citizens and is valid for national calls, from Monday to Friday, between 08.00 and 20.00. Also, Romanians abroad can request information on preventing and combating the virus at the line specially dedicated to them, +4021.320.20.20.

Below we present the situation regarding the infection with the SARS – CoV – 2 virus at European and global level:

Between 3 February 2022 – 10 February 2022, 97.966.503 cases were reported in the EU / EEA. Most cases have been reported in France, Italy, Spain and Germany.

As of 15 December 2020, the CEPCB has stopped publishing data on the number of confirmed cases and the number of deceased citizens, both in the EU / EEA, the United Kingdom, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Andorra and globally. These reports are updated weekly.

COUNTRY

 

CONFIRMED CASES DEAD

 

Great Britain 17.803.325  (+428.248)  158.318  (+1474)
France 21.039.639 (+1.166.650)  133.614  (+2026)
Spain 10.945.284   (+377.451)    95.043  (+1345)
Italy 11.847.436   (+611.691)  149.896  (+2576)
Germany 11.768.128  (+1.346.451)  119.450  (+1118)

Source: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CEPCB) (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en)

OVERALL SITUATION ON FEBRUARY 10th, 2022
CONFIRMED CASES DEAD
394.483.957 (+18.254.411) 5.753.799 (+71.971)

* Data on the number of people cured, reported daily by breakdown by state and globally, have ceased to be processed and communicated by the data aggregation center of this type, namely Johns Hopkins CSSE.

** Data in parentheses represent the number of new cases, between 3 February – 10 February 2022.

*** CEPCB states that updates at national level are published on different time coordinates and subsequently processed, which may lead to discrepancies between daily data published by states and those published by CEPCB.

 

Strategic Communication Group


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