More and more Romanians are choosing to get vaccinated, as the COVID-19 situation in the country is worsening
More than 93,000 Romanians were vaccinated with a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours, as the number of people choosing to get inoculated in the country is rising, in the context of a surge in the number of infections and a dramatic situation in hospitals. According to the latest report, more than 93 people got a first shot in the last day and the number of Romanians fully vaccinated is close to six million. Also, around 144,000 children aged between 12 and 17 years have been vaccinated against COVID-19 since June, after the vaccine was approved for this age group. 96,000 of them have received the full vaccination scheme.
Romania has received hundreds of oxygen concentrators from the European Union’s reserve stockpile
Hundreds of oxygen concentrators from the reserve stockpiles of the European Union have arrived in Romania on Monday. The equipment was brought at the National Intervention Center in Ciolpani, from where it is due to be distributed to hospitals in the country, the head of the Emergency Situations Department, Raed Arafat, has said.
Raed Arafat: We needed the oxygen concentrators when we made the call, and Netherlands is the country that had this stockpile. So the Netherlands has first sent us 200 concentrators, under the Civil Protection Mechanism, of course and after it was determined whether there were concentrators elsewhere in order to be donated, the decision was made to offer Romania 350 more concentrators. Therefore, from the RescEU stockpile based in the Netherlands, which belongs or is entirely financed by the European Commission, we have received so far 550 oxygen concentrators.
Updated COVID-19 tally in Romania
Romania has again registered more than 16,000 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, after several days of decline in the number of cases. There are a little fewer cases than a week ago, but the number of deaths associated to the COVID-19 illness has again surpassed 500. Bucharest has seen a decline in the daily count – 1.650 new cases, which is still the highest number in the country, but significantly lower for the capital, since the end of last month. The authorities say that the vaccination rate has reached 60% in the capital. In hospitals across the country there are more than 20,000 COVID patients, with 1,867 of them being treated in Intensive Care Units.
Mădălina Brotacel, RADOR
