As many as 1,174 cases of infection with COVID-19 presently recorded in Moldova

Chisinau, 9 April /MOLDPRES/ - As many as 1,174 cases of infection with COVID-19 are registered in Moldova at present. A number of 1,058 of them are with local transmission and 116 – import ones. Sixty nine confirmed cases of the new coronavirus are recorded in the Transnistrian region.    

Data unveiled by the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry shows that 317 cases of infection so far have been confirmed in health sector employees, among whom: 86 physicians, 108 medical assistants, 24 doctor’s assistants, one para-physician, 6 pharmacists, 92 auxiliary staff. Most of them are employees of the Soroca district hospital and emergency medical assistance – 96, Stefan Voda – 46, Glodeni – 20. Sixteen cases of infected were confirmed among employees of the Republican Clinical Hospital and nine – at the Clinic Psychiatry Hospital.    

As many as 128 of the infected patients are in serious condition, 367 patients are in medium gravity condition and the rest are in a satisfactory condition.

Eighty eight persons infected with COVID-19 are presently put in the Municipal Hospital of Contagious Diseases for Children. Sixty one of them are children. Seven out of 13 patients from the Emilian Cotaga Clinic of the Mother and Child Institute are children.    

So far, 50 people have been treated and 28 died.