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Historic moment for Romania and the European Union. After a year of fighting against the new coronavirus, the vaccination campaign began today. Immunization began at 9:00 am in Bucharest and an hour later throughout the country. The first Romanian to receive a dose of this serum is a nurse from the National Institute “Matei Balş” in the capital.
I will update 9:00. The national anti-COVID vaccination campaign has officially started in Romania. Nurse Mihaela Anghel received the first dose of vaccine.
Update 8:30. The authorities published the first details about the first person to be vaccinated at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Matei Balş ”. This is Mihaela Anghel, general nurse, member of the medical team who, on February 27 of this year, took care of the first patient in Romania confirmed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The first people in Romania to be vaccinated as of today are the medical staff of the 10 infectious disease hospitals on the front line in the fight against COVID-19:
– National Institute of Infectious Diseases „Prof. Dr. Matei Balş ”, Bucharest;
– Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases „Dr. Victor Babeş “from Bucharest, including Pipera’s modular external section;
– Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Brasov;
– Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Cluj-Napoca;
– Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Constanza;
– “Victor Babeş” Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Pneumoftiziology of Craiova;
– Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Iasi;
– Hospital of Pneumoftiziology „Dr. Nicolae Ruşdea ”from Baia Mare;
– Suceava County Emergency Hospital “Sfântul Ioan cel Nou”;
– Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Pneumoftiziology „Dr. Victor Babeş ”of Timişoara, including the external section of this hospital, the cardiovascular recovery clinical section within the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases of Timişoara.
According to the GCS, the vaccine doses of the first tranche – the more than 3,000 vaccines worth the first administration – were assigned according to the needs of each of the 10 hospitals. Thus, in Brasov 100 doses were requested; at the ‘Matei Balş’ Hospital in Bucharest – 600 doses, and at the ‘Victor Babeş’ – 530; in Cluj – 375 doses; Constanta, 170; Dolj – 90; Iasi – 260; Baia Mare: 210; Suceava – 250; Timisoara – 450 doses.
“We will all soon meet the first person who was vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. Let me add that, as coordinator of the vaccination campaign, I am equally interested in the first person vaccinated, the second vaccinated, the thousandth vaccinated. If I could, I would listen the story of each person who chooses to be vaccinated, be it medical personnel or the general public, when we reach the mass vaccination stage. And, above all, I am interested in the last person vaccinated, the last person who will choose to be vaccinated. That is to say , the moment when, together, we can declare that, through a joint effort, we are putting an end to the pandemic, ”said Col. Dr. Valeriu Gheorghiță, coordinator of the vaccination campaign in our country.
Romania will have more than 10 million doses of vaccine from the contracts negotiated by the European Commission
“The vaccination campaign begins at the same time in Romania and in the other member states of the European Union. We have everything set up. It is an important moment, we have been waiting for a year for it. The appearance of the vaccine in record time will help to eradicate the pandemic in the shortest possible time, I hope. In addition to the measures we have, the vaccine comes to help with this, “said Prime Minister Florin Cîțu, when the first installment of vaccine arrives.
Likewise, the Prime Minister of Romania stressed that “next week we will receive around 140,000 doses. In total, Romania will have around 10 million doses of vaccine. “
So far, the European Commission has signed contracts with six companies. Based on these signed contracts and depending on which vaccines the European Medicines Agency will continue to recommend and authorized by the European Commission, Romania will be able to access the number of doses necessary to vaccinate 10.7 million people, with the possibility of supplementation.
Package leaflet: What is the name of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine? What information does the leaflet contain?
The European Medicines Agency has published the Pfizer / BioNTech package insert. The commercial name of the vaccine is Comirnaty.
According to the document, it is a preparation intended only for people over 16 years of age.
The package insert also states that the vaccine must be administered in two doses, at least 21 days apart.
The document also shows that the duration of protection offered by the serum is not yet known, but is not less than a few months, and is still being determined by ongoing clinical trials.
Vaccinated people may also not be fully protected within seven days after the second dose of the vaccine.
Three EU countries started vaccination yesterday
Hungary, Germany and Slovakia stole the start of the vaccination campaign, being the first people in the three states to be immunized since Saturday.
In Germany, the first to receive the serum was a 101-year-old woman from an asylum, while in Slovakia the vaccine was given to a member of the pandemic management commission. In Hungary, the Pfizer / BioNTech serum has reached several members of the medical staff. It is all part of an already established plan, Hungarian officials announced.
Apart from these states, the rest of the EU countries are preparing for the moment that today will go down in history: the day of vaccination or, as the president of the European Commission says, the beginning of a success story.
Publisher: George Costita
