#WeeklyReport 16 - 23 August: On a 10-day moving average, confirmed new cases in Romania are down 5.5%

This is the summary of last week's developments in terms of indicators that point to the pandemic:

Romania:

• The 10-day moving average for new confirmed cases is down in the period under review, after 11 consecutive weeks of increase, by 5.5% to 1,187.
• Romania ranks fourth in the European Union - after Spain, Malta and Luxembourg - in terms of the evolution of new confirmed cases (cumulative) per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks. It is followed by France, Croatia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria. 
• The cure rate fell for the eighth consecutive week, by 1.3 percentage points between 16 August and 23 August, to almost 45%, the lowest since 8 May.
• Net/active cases are up for the 11th consecutive week, up 14.5%, between August 16 and August 23 to 39,946 (historical high). Excluding asymptomatic cases, there was a 13.4% increase to 30,517 cases (record high).
• Looking at the dynamics of net cases (10-day moving average), Germany recorded positive values for the 34th consecutive day and Romania recorded values above 0 for the 72nd day in a row on 23 August.

Worldwide:

• The daily rate of confirmed cases (10-day moving average) continued its downward trend to 1.11% on 23 August (historical low), down from 1.28% on 16 August.
• The total number of confirmed cases reached 23.4 million on 23 August, up by 1.7 million compared to 16 August.
• The countries reporting the most new confirmed cases last week were the USA, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Spain.   
• The global cures/confirmed cases ratio continued its upward trend last week, reaching almost 65% on 23 August (a record level). The increase is 1.7 percentage points compared to the level on 16 August.

USA:

• With 24.4% of all confirmed cases worldwide, the US has more than 5.7 million confirmed cases to date.
• The 10-day moving average for confirmed new cases fell for the fourth week in a row, by 13% between 16 August and 23 August, to 45,322, the lowest since 3 July. On Sunday, 23 August, only 34,759 new cases were reported, the lowest since 17 August.
• The ratio of cured cases to confirmed cases is down 1.8 percentage points between 16 August and 23 August, to over 32%.
• In New York, the global epicenter of the pandemic in March and April, only 0.77% of the more than 74,000 people tested positive on August 22. The rate of positive cases reached an all-time low last week of 0.69%.

Germany: The 10-day moving average for confirmed new cases continued to rise last week, up 22.5% between 16 August and 23 August, to 1,221 (in the highs of early May). On 21 August, the highest level of new confirmed cases since 24 April was recorded (1,737), the ratio of cures/confirmed cases decreased by 0.7 percentage points between 16 August and 23 August, to 88.7%, the lowest since 22 May.

Greece: the number of confirmed new cases continued to rise, reaching a record 284 on 23 August.

New Zealand has extended the quarantine in Auckland by four days until 30 August.