A number of 1,017 infections with COVID-19 were recorded among employees of the national healthcare system. Among those confirmed with the disease are 367 nurses and 326 auxiliary workers. The number of infections with the novel coronavirus now stands at 4,052, 475 of which were reported in the Transnistrian region, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection issued in the morning of May 3.

Forty-eight persons suspected of being infected with COVID-19 were admitted to the triage center COVID-19 Chisinau during the last 24 hours.

Among those infected, 260 persons are in a serious state and 27 of them were put on a ventilator.

As many as 48 persons were discharged from the hospital on May 2. In total, 1,382 persons were cured, while 124 succumbed to COVID-19.