This is a summary of last week’s developments in the indicators measuring the pandemic:

Romania:

• The 10-day moving average of new confirmed cases declined over the period under review, down 5.5% to 1,187, after 11 consecutive weeks of increases.
• Romania ranks fourth in the European Union—after Spain, Malta and Luxembourg—on the 14-day cumulative number of new confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants. It is followed by France, Croatia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria.
• The recovery rate fell for the eighth consecutive week, down 1.3 percentage points between August 16 and August 23, to just under 45%, the lowest since May 8.
• Active (net) cases increased for the 11th consecutive week, up 14.5% between August 16 and August 23 to 39,946 (an all-time high). Excluding asymptomatic cases, the increase was 13.4%, to 30,517 (a record high).
• Looking at the change in net cases (10-day moving average), Germany has posted positive readings for the 34th consecutive day, and Romania recorded values above zero for the 72nd day in a row as of August 23.

Worldwide:

• The daily growth rate of confirmed cases (10-day moving average) continued to trend down, to 1.11% on August 23 (an all-time low), easing from 1.28% on August 16.
• Total confirmed cases reached 23.4 million on August 23, up by 1.7 million versus August 16.
• The countries reporting the most new confirmed cases last week were the US, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Spain.
• The global recoveries-to-confirmed cases ratio continued to rise last week, to nearly 65% on August 23 (a record high), up 1.7 percentage points from August 16.

US:

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

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

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

New Zealand extended Auckland’s lockdown by four days to August 30.