Romania receives a new batch of Moderna vaccine
A batch of almost 107,000 doses of Moderna vaccine will arrive at the Cantacuzino National Institute for Medical-Military Development Research in Bucharest, on Friday. The transport is provided by the manufacturing company, and the vaccine doses will be brought to Bucharest by land. The serum will be stored at the National Storage Center in Bucharest, and in the next period it will be distributed in the existing regional centers at national level, said the National Coordinating Committee for Vaccination Activities. Romanian authorities recently announced 5010 new cases of coronavirus resulting from approximately 37,500 tests processed within 24 hours. Most new cases were registered in Bucharest – 739. 108 deaths were also reported, and 1166 patients are hospitalized in ICUs.
Romania temporarily suspends the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine
Romania has decided to temporarily suspend the rollout of the doses from a batch of AstraZeneca vaccine until the evaluation of the European Medicines Agency is completed. However, the National Committee for the Coordination of Anti-COVID Vaccination decided to continue the immunization with the British serum, but with the doses from the batches without problems. Nine European countries have decided not to use the AstraZeneca vaccine after reporting severe reactions and even deaths among inoculated people. From this batch, Romania received the first tranche of the AstraZeneca vaccine, of 81,600 doses, on February 7th. As of February 15, 77,049 doses have been used, the remaining 4,257 doses are withdrawn from the vaccination process. These will be replaced so as not to affect the immunization process. At the same time, CNCAV mentions that this decision was taken as an extreme precautionary measure, without there being at this moment in Romania any scientific argument that would have imposed this decision. Another decision of CNCAV is that the vaccination with all the other vaccines from AstraZeneca from the other existing batches currently in Romania continues. Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîțu specified on Friday that the decision to suspend the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccine was taken by the Romanian specialists. He pointed out that the European Medicines Agency does not make any direct link between the immunization serum from AstraZeneca and the problems that have arisen in some European countries.
Romania adopted new amendments on the law regarding military missions abroad
The Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, promulgated on Friday the law amending and supplementing some normative acts in the field of national defense, which regards military missions abroad. One of the amendments states that personnel participating in missions and operations under the mandate or leadership of international organizations shall enjoy established rights only if they are not provided by the international organizations under whose auspices the missions and operations are conducted. Also, during the missions abroad, the personnel benefit from the daily allowances, established for each category, provided by the law on the participation of the armed forces in missions and operations outside the territory of the Romanian state./mbaciu
Magda Baciu
