Since the start of
\nthe vaccine roll-out on December 27, last year, nearly 7.8 million people have received
\none of the 4 anti-Covid vaccines-Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and
\nJohnson&Johnson, and 7.5 million of them are now fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n
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The number of COVID
\n19 cases is on the decrease, but authorities are once again calling for
\nvaccination and compliance with protection measures, while the introduction of the
\ncompulsory COVID certificate before New Year’s is rather unlikely. <\/p>\n
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The head of the
\nDepartment for Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, said that mobile vaccination
\ncentres will be organised in rural areas in the forthcoming period. He also
\nadded that the vaccine is the ‘best solution’ to prevent severe forms of the
\ndisease.<\/p>\n
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Romanian hospitals
\nare seeing the lowest number of COVID-19 patients since the start of the 4th
\nwave, with around 900 patients in intensive care. <\/p>\n
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The health minister
\nAlexandru Rafila has recently talked with representatives of family
\nphysician associations. According to
\nhim, one of the main emergencies at the moment is developing the testing
\ncapacity in family physician practices, as well as improving the assessment and
\ntreatment of milder forms of the disease. Funds will be earmarked to this end,
\nso that patients need not incur additional costs. For confirmed coronavirus
\ncases, family physicians will be able to prescribe anti-viral medication:<\/p>\n
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Alexandru Rafila: The refund
\npackage for testing covers the testing as such and the protection materials for
\nhealthcare personnel. Apart from that, for confirmed cases the option of a
\nminimal funding package will be available, allowing for investigations and the
\nprescription of outpatient anti-viral treatment, which obviously will be protective
\nfor patients and healthcare STAFF, so as to make sure that anti-viral treatment
\nis only given after prior assessment of the patients.<\/p>\n
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At EU
Romania has more than 7.5 million fully vaccinated citizens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":90130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[40403,35392,35339,35374,32037,36442,40402,30706,35973],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-90515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-anti-viral","tag-cases","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-family","tag-omicron","tag-outpatient","tag-physicians","tag-variant"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nlevel, Brussels is considering the introduction of compulsory COVID-19
\nvaccination requirements, as the new variant, Omicron, keeps spreading. <\/strong>Austria has
\nannounced vaccination will be mandatory as of February 1, and it is the first
\ncountry in Western Europe and one of the few in the world to take this step. Germany
\nis also considering making vaccination mandatory, with Parliament to make a
\ndecision in this respect by year end. In turn, Greece announced this measure will
\nbe introduced for citizens over 60 years of age, and similar ideas are taken
\ninto account in other EU member states as well. (tr. A.M. Popescu) <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"