COVID-19 Romania s PM Florin Cîţu announced he asked the
coordinator of the national vaccination programme Valeriu Gheorghiţă and the
health minister Vlad Voiculescu to take steps to initiate the 3rd
vaccination phase sooner than planned, because in March Romania will receive
2.6 million anti-COVID vaccine doses, which is more than originally estimated.
The PM said that where citizens entitled to vaccines in the 1st and
2nd stages of the programme decline getting the jabs, the respective
doses should go to the general public scheduled for immunisation in the 3rd
phase. So far 1.16 million people have received the vaccine in Romania. On the
other hand, more than 830,000 infections have been reported in Romania since
the start of the pandemic, with the death toll standing at nearly 21,000. Face-to-face classes continue for senior-year middle and
high school students, but in a mixed system, with half of the children
attending classes online, under a joint order issued by t