Romania
\nranks 7th in a world ranking of anti-Covid vaccination with both doses administered
\nreads the Facebook page of the National Immunization platform on February 26th,
\ntwo months into the campaign. This is an honourable place for the skeptics
\nready to spot out the Romanians’ failures in terms of organisation. Still in
\nits second stage, which includes the elderly, those with chronic conditions and
\nthe employees of the key institutions, the campaign is expected to enter its
\nthird stage, which involves the entire population. <\/p>\n
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People
\nin this category can enlist for immunization on an online platform after March
\n15th and their vaccination can begin most likely in April, military
\nphysician Valeriu Gheorghita, coordinator of the national immunization campaign,
\nannounced on Sunday. The activation of this list hinged on rendering all the
\n750 centeres in Romania involved with the immunization campaign, operational. <\/p>\n
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On Monday Romania is to return to the
\nminimum of 30 thousand daily vaccinations and according to dr. Gheorghita,
\nthere are days in which the number of those vaccinated will exceed 40 thousand.
\nGheorghita went on to say that the percentage of 50% vaccinated population is
\nto be reached in June and July. In September, Romania could hit the threshold
\nof 60-70% collective immunization accounting for 10 million people. <\/p>\n
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However, vaccination does not exclude
\nprevention and caution, as Romania is in its third pandemic wave, according to dr.
\nVirgil Mustata from the Victor Babes hospital of infectious diseases in
\nTimisoara, western Romania. He insists on three protection measures, mask
\nwearing, disinfection and keeping social distancing. <\/p>\n
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Virgil Mustata: We have seen in the past two weeks a rising
\nnumber of infections and our hospital is facing an enormous pressure being half
\noccupied. Support hospitals are also reporting a big number of patients. The
\nonly method to prevent this third wave is to not put more pressure on the
\nhealthcare system and prevention is the right measure in this respect. And now
\nI would like to remind these three rules that we need to observe until we
\nnotice a significant drop in the number of infections and are keeping the
\npandemic under control: mask wearing, hand hygiene and disinfection as well as
\nsocial distancing. These three are very important.<\/p>\n
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Physician Virgil Musta is
\nrecommending the people in the risk categories to get immunized a.s.a.p because
\nmost of those admitted to hospitals with Covid infections are old people who
\nhave other conditions. <\/p>\n
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