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Three doctors from the Victor Babes Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital in the western Romanian city of Timisoara were diagnosed with COVID-19, although they were vaccinated against the virus a few days earlier, Gundul reported.
The publication notes that these are not the only cases of infection after the first dose of the vaccine. Yesterday, Carmen Dorobutz, former manager of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in the northeastern city of Iasi, also announced that she had contracted the virus, despite receiving the first dose of the vaccine.
According to the publication, the three doctors at the Timisoara hospital do not have serious symptoms.
In the last 24 hours, 17,846 people have been vaccinated in Romania with the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, and since the start of the vaccination campaign on December 27, a total of 76,400 people have been reported, Agence France-Presse reports. Of these, 264 received adverse reactions.
In the context of mass immunization with the Pfizer / Bayontech vaccine, WHO Director for Europe Hans Kluge called on European countries to show reasonable flexibility during the time between the administration of the first and second doses, he reported. BNR.
Some countries, including the UK, which was the first to start vaccination, are trying to make up for vaccine shortages by extending the time between doses to 12 weeks.
“This decision represents a safe compromise between the current limited production capacity and the need for governments to protect as many citizens as possible and relieve pressure on health systems. I want to emphasize that we made the decision based on the evidence available from clinical trial vaccines, “Kluge said.
Pfizer has noted that there is no data on the protection your vaccine will provide if the second dose is given more than 21 days after the first.
