The COVID-19 vaccination campaign will start right after Christmas in Romania
The Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has said that now is not the time to relax, adding that restrictions ment to cut the spread of the coronavirus will remain in place on Christmas and New Year. President Iohannis has visited the Cantacuzino Institute in Bucharest, where the National Center to store anti-COVID vaccines has been organized. He has said that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 will start immediately after Christmas, when Romania will receive a symbolic tranche of 10,000 vaccine doses, adding that the country will receive a second and larger delivery as of January, of at least 100,000 doses a week. The president has said that all medical staff will be vaccinated in the first stage and the larger population will start to receive the vaccine in March and April. There will be diifferent types of vaccines, all of them safe and the vaccination will not be mandatory, the president has said.
Latest COVID-19 tally in Romania
The Romanian authorities have announced 5,340 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, out of almost 27.500 tests, taking the total number of infections to more than 580,000 since the pandemic has started. Most new cases were reported in Bucharest – 1,088. There were also 188 deaths nationwide, in the last 24 hours and 1,270 patients are currently in need of intensive care. More than 485,000 people have recovered from the disease.
The US Ambassador to Bucharest has conveyed a message to the survivors of the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Romania is commemorating these days the heroes who died in the anti-Communist revolution in December 1989. Thursday was a day of mourning in the city of Timisoara, to honor the martyrs who died there. On Friday, the American Ambassador in Romania Adrian Zuckerman has visited the city of Oradea and addressed a message to the survivors of the 1989 Revolution.
Adrian Zuckerman: Unfortunately, the revolution is not completely over. There are still red barons and other who should not be in the Parliament or the Government, there is still corruption, criminal groups, people trafficking – all of there must be over and Romania will have a bright future if these things are done. And the rule of law should be observed.
Mădălina Brotăcel, RADOR
