Ambulance worker in Bucharest tested positive for COVID-19. Cases not complying with the quarantine rules

An employee of Bucharest Ambulance has been confirmed with coronavirus. The nurse has found out the result of the tests on Wednesday night.

The potential source of contamination is not clear for now, if it was a patient transported by the ambulance (for the nurse also worked when patients with COVID-19 were taken to hospital) or if the infection came outside work.

The authorities are working now to identify the nurse’s direct contacts, as well as his colleagues and among the patients the nurse made contact with.

There are currently 260 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Romania, with most cases being registered in Bucharest.

The balance sheet of the new case of coronavirus will be announced only once a day, at 13:00hrs. The report was announced twice a day so far, at 10:00hrs and at 18:00hrs.

Man from Suceava, tested positive, made contact with at least 150 people

A man from Bosanci village, Suceava county, recently confirmed positive with the novel coronavirus, has lied the authorities that he had returned from Belgium early this month, and continued his social life without taking any precautionary measure, without staying in self-isolation.

More precisely, he went visiting his friends, went shopping and even attended a party in Suceava and a religious service at the church.

He called the ambulance only when he felt sick. The mad, aged 56, is  now admitted the the Infectious Disease Hospital from Iasi. According to the village mayor, he would have other pre-existing diseases, but he is in good condition.

His family is in isolation at home and those 150 people with whom he made contact have been notified to stay at home.

Chief of Oncology Clinic in Iasi came to work after traveling to France, ignoring self- isolation

The chief of the Oncology Clinic in Iasi, who has also tested positive for coronavirus after traveling to France, came to work at the hospital four days before the confirmation of the tests. According to the epidemiological inquiry, the doctor was captured on the video cameras of the hospital talking to nine other doctors. However, it seems he would have not been at more than one metre distance of any of those people.

The inquiry established that doctor Lucian Miron from the Regional Oncology Institute came to the hospital after returning from France, before he would have been confirmed with COVID-19 despite the recommendations made by the hospital’s epidemiologist who had told the manager to stay in home isolation.