In the last day, 7,658 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Romania, which is 4,370 more than the previous day. This is the record of recent months in our country. Bucharest has the most cases – 1,524.

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

More than 2,000 patients were hospitalized

In contrast to newly confirmed cases, 205 people tested positive again after retesting patients who had already tested positive.

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.

9 deaths in the last 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.

How many Romanians were checked?

Over the last day, 5,796 RT-PCR tests were performed (3,534 according to the case definition and medical protocol and 2,262 according to the request) and 22,304 express antigen tests.

To date, 13,258,629 RT-PCR tests and 10,518,985 rapid antigen tests have been processed at the national level.