Dr. Adrian Marinescu, medical director of the Matei Balsh Institute in the capital, draws attention to the increase in COVID-19 cases, revealing that the Institute has seen an increase of at least 50 percent in cases compared to the previous period. , reports News.ro.

However, 80 percent of cases are mild, and very few end up in intensive care.

“We do not think that we will have a wave of the pandemic, as it was at the beginning, that the pandemic is coming back. I think there should be a balanced debate that says this: when a virus stays in circulation for a long time, it obviously mutates. Others are not important, new options are appearing,” says the doctor

Essentially, if we’re talking about Eris, the Omicron subvariant that circulates quite a lot around the world, probably somewhere around 40 percent and, as we know from previous cases, will become the predominant one.

“The same thing is happening in Romania, we are doing quite a lot of sequencing and now we have started to do it dynamically. Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients also have sequencing. We really have that opportunity and probably in the near future we will have the exact numbers to know if they are the same in Romania,” said doctor Adrian Marinescu on Tuesday evening on Medika TV.

The doctor noted that almost all the cases of Covid that come to the hospital are mild.

“We know from previous experience that there is quite a bit of a gap between what is happening in Western Europe and Romania, in the sense that here it is a bit later. The promotion from her was a few weeks ago. What I’ve seen in the Institute for about two weeks is at least a 50 percent increase over what we had before. About 100 presentations every day, regardless of age. True, 80 percent are mild forms. There are patients who can go home,” the specialist reassures.

However, he points out that 20 percent “are not necessarily the very serious cases of therapy, but these are people with risk factors, there are young children that you have to monitor, and there are those who really have pulmonary, neurological complications , etc., and the percentage of those who end up in intensive care is fortunately extremely small. Few people end up in therapy, but it can still happen.”