COVID-19 notification rate in Bucharest exceeds 30 cases per thousand inhabitants
The 14-day COVID-19 notification rate in Bucharest on Sunday reached 30.89 cases per thousand inhabitants, according to the Public Health Directorate (DSP).
This is the highest SARS-CoV-2 infection rate registered in the Capital so far.
The previous day there was a rate of 28.21 cases per thousand population.
The COVID-19 notification rate has rapidly increased since the beginning of the year. On January 1, it stood at 0.72 cases per thousand inhabitants. AGERPRES (RO - editor: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - editor: Adina Panaitescu)
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