Date | 27 December 2020–present |
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Location | Nationwide |
Cause | COVID-19 pandemic in Romania |
Organised by | Government of Romania |
Participants | 1,212,502 people vaccinated with at least one dose (8 March 2021) 6.28% 3.4% |
Website | vaccinare-covid |
COVID-19 vaccination in Romania started on 27 December 2020. It was announced that the process would be divided into three phases. Medical personnel would be vaccinated first (first phase), followed by the population at risk (second phase) and finally by the rest of the population (third phase).[1] Vaccination was declared free and non-mandatory.[1] As of March 2021, three types of vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca) were authorized to be used in Romania.[2]
Background
Responsibility for COVID-19 vaccine deployment
The National Coordinating Committee for COVID-19 Vaccination Activities (Romanian: Comitetul Național de Coordonare a Activităților privind Vaccinarea împotriva COVID-19; abbreviated CNCAV) is the inter-ministerial body responsible for developing the national vaccination strategy. It was established on 20 November 2020 by Prime Minister's decree and is subordinated to the General Secretariat of the Government.[3] The first president of the Committee is Valeriu Gheorghiță, doctor at the Central Military Hospital in Bucharest.[4] The Romanian Army and structures from the Ministry of Interior are involved in the distribution and transport of vaccines.[5]
Vaccines on order
Vaccine | Origin | Doses ordered | Approval[6] | Deployment |
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Pfizer/BioNTech | US/Germany | 10 million[7] | 21 December 2020 | 26 December 2020[8] |
Moderna | US | N/A | 6 January 2021 | 13 January 2021[9] |
Oxford/AstraZeneca | UK/Sweden | N/A | 29 January 2021 | 7 February 2021[10] |
Johnson & Johnson | Netherlands/Israel | N/A | Pending | Pending |
Total | 85 million[11] |
Rollout schedule
On 26 December 2020, Ion Cantacuzino Institute in Bucharest received the first symbolic 10,000-dose batch of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.[12] The truck with the first doses of vaccine entered Romania at Nădlac customs the day before in the presence of Raed Arafat, head of the Department for Emergency Situations and Valeriu Gheorghiță, head of the National Coordinating Committee for COVID-19 Vaccination Activities.[13] Vaccination began on 27 December in 10 infectious disease hospitals across the country,[12] with Mihaela Anghel, a nurse at the Matei Balș National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Bucharest, being the first person vaccinated. Anghel was among the personnel that treated the country's first infected person on 27 February of the same year.[14]
On 29 December 2020, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced that Romania would help Moldova with a donation of 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine units in the future during his meeting with the Moldovan President Maia Sandu in the country as part of a collaboration project about the COVID-19 pandemic and other topics between the two countries.[15] Iohannis himself was vaccinated on 15 January 2021.[16] The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines destined to be sent to Moldova from Romania, composed of an amount of 20,000 of them, was approved by the Government of Romania on 24 February 2021.[17] Moldova received 21,600 Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses on 27 February from Romania,[18] which started being administered on 2 March.[19][20] Moldova donated 1,810 of these units to the authorities of the unrecognized state of Transnistria on 5 March,[21] which thanked the Romanian state for the help.[22]
Valeriu Gheorghiță, the coordinator of the national vaccination campaign, announced on the 9th of March that the third stage of vaccination, mass vaccination, will first start rolling out in the localities with an incidence rate of at least 4.5‰. The people from nine localities may begin scheduling their appointments on the national vaccination platform: Alba Iulia, Timișoara, Brașov, Sânpetru, Baia Mare, Zalău, Petroșani, Cluj-Napoca and Giurgiu.[23][24]
Vaccine storage and distribution centers
The Ion Cantacuzino Institute in Bucharest and six military hospitals in the country are the centers where the COVID-19 vaccine is stored, as they have freezers with a large capacity that can ensure storage in the required conditions.[25]
Vaccine priority groups
Vaccination against COVID-19 in Romania is carried out in three phases, in which priority is given to medical staff, people over 65, people with chronic diseases, people with disabilities, homeless people and essential workers (lawmakers, military personnel, magistrates, teachers, commercial workers, etc.).[27]
Phase | Priority groups | Number eligible (estimated) |
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I | health and social workers | 160,000[28] |
II | high-risk population | 5 million[29] |
essential workers | 1.5 million[30] | |
III | general population |
Vaccination centers
The Ministry of Health intends to set up 899 vaccination centers throughout the country: 302 in health units for the immunization of medical staff and 597 in other spaces for phases II and III.[31] 583 centers were operational by 30 January 2021.[32]
Adverse reaction reporting
As of 8 March 2021, adverse reactions were reported in 6,161 vaccinated people, which is a rate of 3.3 per thousand doses administered. Most of them were general reactions (fever, headache, myalgia, asthenia, urticaria, etc.).[33] Only one case of anaphylaxis was reported in a 46-year-old woman from Olt County inoculated with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.[34] By type of vaccine, most adverse reactions have been reported in people vaccinated with Oxford/AstraZeneca (1.06% of the total number of doses administered), followed by Moderna (0.27%) and Pfizer/BioNTech (0.24%).[35]
Statistics
Total number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered
The following chart shows the total number of doses administered.[36]
Daily number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered by manufacturer
The following chart shows the daily number of doses administered, broken down by vaccine manufacturer.[35]
Opinion polls
Similar to neighboring countries, an important part of the Romanian population is reluctant to vaccine. The most commonly cited reasons are fear of adverse reactions and distrust of the vaccine's effectiveness.[37][38]
See also
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