Two twin girls aged one month and 17 days were brought from Feltičeni to the children’s hospital in Iasi on Tuesday by the SMURD team after some complications after contracting SARS-CoV-2.

According to doctors, the two girls will be placed in intensive care at the St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital in Iasi.

“The SMURD crew will bring from Fălticeni twins aged one month and 17 days, weighing 2.5 kilograms, in incubators, with acute respiratory distress due to COVID-19 to anesthesia and intensive care at the children’s hospital,” said Diana Cimpoeşu, chief physician of UPU. -SMURD Iasi, according to News.ro.

In Romania, 7,658 new cases of COVID-19, a record for the last 4 and a half months

In the last day, 7,658 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Romania, which is 4,370 more than the previous day.

Romania has not registered so many cases of COVID-19 in one day since the beginning of March, when 8,000 cases were registered in 24 hours.

In hospitals, in the COVID-19 departments, 2,204 patients were hospitalized, which is 72 more than the previous day. 136 people were hospitalized in intensive care, which is 21 more than the previous day. Of the 136 patients admitted to the HTI, 114 are unvaccinated.

Of the total number of hospitalized patients, 375 are minors, 374 are in wards, which is 14 less than the previous day, and one is in the ICU, two less than the previous day.

From the beginning of the pandemic to today, 65,824 people with a diagnosed SARS-CoV-2 infection have died.

In the interval 18.07.2022 (10:00) – 19.07.2022 (10:00) INSP reported 9 deaths (8 men and one woman), there were no deaths before the control interval.

Out of 9 deaths: one was registered in the age category of 50-59 years, two in the age category of 60-69 years, 4 in the age category of 70-79 years and two in the age category of over 80 years. 8 of the registered deaths were from patients who had co-morbidities, no co-morbidities were found in 1 deceased. Of the 9 dead, 4 were unvaccinated and 5 were vaccinated.

Severe WHO warning for Europe

European countries should step up vaccinations and restore measures such as wearing masks in public transport and indoors to avoid an increase in measures as the autumn and winter seasons approach, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.

In an interview with the Reuters agency, the director of the WHO in Europe, Hans Kluge, called on the countries of the continent to act now to prevent the saturation of sanitary systems, in the conditions of the intensive spread of the Omicron BA.5 subvariant. .

“We have an increase in the number of cases (…), in a society that functions almost as before” the pandemic, said the WHO official, who insisted on the need to wear a mask, ventilate closed spaces and administer a second dose of the booster vaccine before serums specific to the new variants will be available in the fall.

These stabilization measures must be implemented to avoid further stricter measures, Hans Kluge emphasized.

WHO says that the situation in Europe is the same as last summer

“I don’t think that society is ready for the introduced lockdowns”, after those that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic, he also noted. “It’s pretty clear now that we’re in a situation similar to last summer.” With the only difference The Omicron version is dominant, said the same representative of the WHO in a press release quoted by the EFE agency.

“With the increase in the number of cases, we also see an increase in the number of hospitalizations, which will increase even more in the autumn and winter months, after schools reopen, people return from holidays and with the arrival of winter, social interaction will move to closed spaces,” predicts Hans Kluge, again insisting on the re-introduction of the mask in public transport and indoors and the introduction of a second dose of the booster vaccine.

Last week, almost three million new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe, which is about half of those reported worldwide. During the same period, the number of hospitalizations doubled and almost 3,000 people died from COVID-19.