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Three persons who returned from Italy tested for novel coronavirus


https://www.ipn.md/en/three-persons-who-returned-from-italy-tested-for-novel-coronavirus-7967_1071852.html

Two grownups and a child who recently returned from Italy went to the Infectious Diseases Hospital “Toma Ciorbă” with fever and cough. The samples taken from them tested negative for COVID-19. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection said that Moldova has got no case of infection with the novel coronavirus so far, IPN reports.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration yesterday announced that a Moldovan woman who is in Italy tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The woman earlier came into contact with a person infected with COVID-19. In the case of another Moldovan woman, the results will be ready the next few days.

According to the data presented by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control to the National Public Health Agency, over 83,000 clinical and laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded between December 31, 2019 and February 28, 2020. The death toll from the coronavirus now stands at 2,858.