As many as 2,472 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases registered in Moldova

15:15 | 20.04.2020 Category: Social

Chisinau, 20 April /MOLDPRES/ - As many as 2,472 cases of COVID-19, tested in laboratory, are recorded in Moldova. About 11,800 tests have been used so far. Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister Viorica Dumbraveanu made statements to this effect after a meeting of the Focal Point today.

According to the official, there are 132 import cases and 2,340 - with local transmission. A number of 145 new cases of infection with coronavirus were confirmed on 19 April, of which three were of import and 142 cases with local transmission. Most cases, 76, were confirmed in the Transnistrian region.

„The health condition of the patients hospitalized in medical institutions shows as follows: 212 people are in serious condition, 558 – in medium condition, 14 patients are with artificial respiration and the rest are in satisfactory health condition. As many as 478 people have been treated, with 21 persons discharged from hospitals on 19 April,’’ Dumbraveanu said.

At the same time, the health minister referred to a consignment of goods needed to combat COVID-19, which arrived in Chisinau from China on 19 April evening, noting that the assistance ‘’makes the country’s medical system stronger in the fight with coronavirus.’’

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