Romania has over 4 million COVID double jabs

Over four million Romanians got the full COVID vaccine treatment, both jabs since the start of the vaccination campaign, kicked off on 27 December, 2020

România Internațional, 09.06.2021, 13:50

Over four million Romanians got the full COVID vaccine treatment, both jabs since the start of the vaccination campaign, kicked off on 27 December, 2020. In spite of this, the rate of inoculation is dropping, and as of official figures, Romania actually vaccinated under 50,000 people within 24 hours, amounting to half of their peak count. In total, over 8.2 million doses have been administered overall.

The head of the vaccination campaign, Valeriu Gheorghita, said he was pleased with how the vaccination campaign ran, considering that the necessary infrastructure had been provided. As he said, We made a major effort during this period, firstly to create an infrastructure that hadn’t existed, with vaccination centers, non existent previously, we went all in – vaccination in family treatment centers, health centers of all levels, private operators, and vaccination marathon events. At this point, only unwilling people won’t take the vaccine.

While admitting that the rate of vaccination is slowing down, he put that that down to lack of willingness, not lack of organization. According to the present jab czar, Romania has the easiest access to the vaccine, but that people have to be willing to take it. As he put it:

Of course it can be better, but it doesn’t have to do with the way in which the vaccination campaign runs. I believe people have the best access in all the European countries. People can pick their kind of vaccine, even at their place of employment, with mobile teams.

In his opinion, Romania had proper epidemiological control, considering it registered a hundred cases of daily SARS-CoV-2 infections, and that the average national incidence is at about .2 at the thousand.

Again, Valeriu Gheorghita:

We have a positive testing rate of .6 per one thousand, which I think posits us in a good place epidemiologically. What matters is that we don’t let our guard down.

He added that this week, 35 public hospitals and six private units would administer vaccines.

We recall that Gheorghita announced that during this week there were vaccinations going on in 35 more public hospitals and 6 private clinics. Also, starting on June 2,we started vaccinations of children between 12 and 15 with the Pfizer vaccine, which makes Romania the first country in Europe to start immunizing this age bracket. At the same time, the authorities have set a target of 10 million immunized by September 1, and that puts us in place for the green certificate for vaccination, to be launched at the European level. (Calin Cotoiu)