Six persons suspected of infection with COVID-19 hospitalized in Moldova

Chisinau, 9 March /MOLDPRES/ - Six adult persons suspected of infection with COVID-19 today were put in the Toma Ciorba hospital from Chisinau. Physicians collected their laboratory tests. Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister Viorica Dumbraveanu has made statements to this effect at a news briefing.    

Dumbraveanu said that the tests of those four persons who were today suspected of infection with COVID-19 had been negative. “At present, we have six persons put in the Toma Ciorba hospital, who were brought from terrestrial and air border crossing points; we describe them as suspect cases; samples were collected and we will already come up with details on them,” Dumbraveanu noted.  

The minister also said that 17 citizens of Moldova were isolated in Romania and the authorities were in permanent touch with their colleagues from the neighbor country, to see how their health condition was unfolding.

Viorica Dumbraveanu made specifications also on the need to take over suspects of COVID-19 with isolette. “Since today morning, a question has appeared about isolettes and the supply of the Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Assistance System with these isolettes. I want to say that the World Health Organization (WHO) came up with a specification that these isolettes are used when we speak about extremely serious infections, such as Ebola. In the case of Coronavirus, they are recommended as caution measures. The transportation is made by ambulance; there are no special requirements for the ambulance; yet, obligatorily, we speak about individual protection equipments, which should be used by medical staff,” Dumbraveanu said.       

The minister informed that the patient infected with COVID was in a positive dynamic.

On 7 March, the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Moldova. It is about a 48-year-old woman who returned from Italy. The patient suffered from more chronic diseases: diabetes, second-degree obesity and hypertension.