COVID-19 death toll exceeds 500 in Romania

Coronavirus death toll in Romania reached 508 on Wednesday, according to official data.

Altogether 26 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, and the confirmed cases increased by 468 during the period, bringing the total number to 9,710, said the Strategic Communication Group, the government agency authorized to publish information on COVID-19, in its daily announcement.

Meanwhile, a number of 288 patients are in intensive care units, while 2,406 recoveries were reported.

The number of confirmed cases per million population in Romania is 505, and the number of deaths is 26,

according to Worldometer, a real time world statistics website. It ranks Romania as rather serious among the Central and Eastern European countries.

In addition, COVID-19 infection among medical personnel is a matter of concern.

Health Minister Nelu Tataru told local media on Tuesday that the number of infected frontline medical personnel in Romania reached 1,033 so far, of which six people died.

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Romania’s carmaker Dacia partially resumes production

Automobile Dacia, Romania’s largest company by turnover, restarted parts of its opeartions on Tuesday on a voluntary basis.

The company’s Mechanical and Chassis Plant restarted production with a reduced team, while the Assembly Plant did so in two shifts, and workers in both plants will work on a voluntary basis, Renault Romania Group, Dacia’s owner, announced in a press statement.

The two plants, both at Mioveni, some 130 km northwest of the capital of Bucharest, will fully restart production from May 4, according to the company.

The carmaker temporarily suspended production from March 19 until April 5 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and then decided to further postpone the resumption of work at the beginning of the month.

Source: Xinhua