Radio Romania International once again held its traditional end-of-year poll in which listeners and Internet and social media users get to choose the person or persons who had the greatest positive impact on the world.
This year healthcare workers from around the world working on the front line in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, together with all those who helped develop vaccines against Covid-19 were chosen as Persons of the Year, with special mentions going to the German doctors and founders of the BioNTech labs Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, and the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó, who contributed to the development of the mRNA technology on which some of the Covid vaccines are based.
Other proposals included the journalists and presenters who have been providing accurate information since the start of the pandemic, as well as Dr Annalisa Malara, who diagnosed the first Covid-19 case in Italy, and Dr Marco Stabile, whose di
Radio Romania International once
again held its traditional end-of-year poll in which listeners and Internet and
social media users get to choose the person or persons who had the greatest positive
impact on the world.
This year healthcare workers from around
the world working on the front line in the battle against the coronavirus
pandemic, together with all those who helped develop vaccines against Covid-19 were
chosen as Persons of the Year, with special mentions going to the German doctors
and founders of the BioNTech labs Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, and the
Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó, who contributed to the development of the mRNA
technology on which some of the Covid vaccines are based.
Other proposals included the
journalists and presenters who have been providing accurate information since
the start of the pandemic, as well as Dr Annalisa Malara, who diagnosed the
first Covid-19 case in Italy, and Dr Marco Stabile, whose discovery that