Andrei Baciu

Bucharest, Aug 29 /Agerpres/ - More than 25,000 people have requested the completion of the anti-COVID vaccination scheme with the doses administered abroad, the state secretary in the Ministry of Health, Andrei Baciu, informed on Sunday. ''25,014 people requested the completion of the vaccination scheme with the doses administered abroad.

Romania will sell Ireland 700,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine, Secretary of State with the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu told AGERPRES on Wednesday, adding that the respective amount of vaccines is not necessary for the domestic vaccine rollout. "Romania has concluded an agreement in principle for the sale of COVID-19 vaccine to Ireland.

Health Minister Ioana Mihaila said on Friday in Petresti, Dambovita County, that in order to ramp up COVID-19 mass vaccination in the countryside, the Health Ministry is considering encouraging the involvement of family physicians, local administrations and priests. Moreover, the minister said, an ordinance is underway to allow family physicians to receive extra money for home vaccination.

A number of 340,020 digital certificates have been generated in the first 12 hours since the certification-covid.gov.ro platform was launched, the Secretary of State with the Ministry of Health Andrei Baciu, also vice-president of the CNCAV (National Committee Coordination Vaccination Activities against COVID-10), informed on Thursday.

The European Union Digital COVID Certificate will become available for download in Romania on July 1 on certificat-covid.gov.ro, senior official with Romania's Health Ministry Andrei Baciu told AGERPRES on Monday. Baciu added that those who do not have access to the internet will be able to obtain the certificate with the aid of their family physicians or the public health directorates.

Vaccines protect us from the new SARS-CoV-2 strains as well, Secretary of State with the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu informed on Monday, quoting a British study. "Vaccines protect us from the new SARS-CoV-2 strains!

Romania is on schedule with the procedures for implementing the digital green certificate on July 1, the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health Andrei Baciu said on Tuesday. "We are on schedule for the objective assumed on July 1.

The first 24 centres to administer in Romania the one-shot COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) will be available in 19 counties and in Bucharest City, and another 20 of them will open at several hospitals nationwide, senior official with the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu said on Thursday.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday that the declining intensity of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could create a "false sense of security" in the unvaccinated people, insisting on the need to immunise a significant percentage of the population.

Secretary of State in the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu said on Tuesday that Romania ranks 4th in the European Union in terms of immunization with two doses of anti-COVID vaccine and 17th in the world.