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The vaccinations that were carried out on Monday, January 4, in one day, in Romania are close to the number of vaccinations carried out during the entire last week, the first since the start of the campaign, which also coincided with the holidays.
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 began Monday at various hospitals across the country. There are 376 vaccination centers across the country, but only about 50 were operational last week.
The National COVID Vaccination Coordination Committee reports that, in the last 24 hours, were immunized against the coronavirus with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, 11,912 people, according to the data provided by the National Institute of Public Health, through the application of the National Electronic Vaccine Registry.
Thus, to date, they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. 25,508 people, given that up to Sunday, January 3, some 13,200 people had been vaccinated.
The vaccination campaign, which in a first phase is aimed at medical personnel, officially began in Romania on December 27, 2020.
As of this week, “the activity in the vaccination centers will work uninterruptedly, 7 days out of 7, with a schedule from 8 in the morning to 8 in the afternoon. And after 20 hours, the vaccination is continued and can be done for our own staff who are on duty or in night shifts, just to facilitate access to the vaccination, “explained the coordinator of the vaccination campaign, Valeriu Gheorghiță , on Digi24.
He said that vaccination goal for stage 1, in which medical personnel are vaccinated, is set in a average of 20,000 people a day. As for him, the military doctor Valeriu Gheorghiță will be vaccinated on Tuesday at the Bucharest military hospital, where he works.
In those vaccinated in the last 24 hours, 10 reactions were recorded common and minor, of which one local reaction and nine general reactions. As of December 27, 2020, 47 common and minor side effects have been reported in vaccination centers, of which: eight local reactions with pain at the injection site and 39 general reactions: fever, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, asthenia, anxiety. , urticaria-type allergies, advises Agerpres.
So far 90,000 people have been programmed
Unlike the Covid testing situation, when labs know of a decrease in activity over the weekend, there may be more people scheduled for the vaccine on days off, because then the medical staff has more time.
“What happened these days, as of December 27, is not relevant for the next period and also, the period that serves the first stage of vaccination is not relevant for the vaccination capacity that Romania has for the second stage and 3rd because the size of the centers is as correct as possible and adapted to the population density ”, stressed Valeriu Gheorghiță.
“I’m older 900 center that have a national distribution, that We could vaccinate at least 150 people a day and we could reach a capacity of more than 140,000 people vaccinated every day, when we talk about the second stage and after the third stage, said the coordinator of the vaccination campaign.
However, the availability of the vaccine must be taken into account, because there is a delivery schedule, and the number of people scheduled must be in accordance with the availability of the vaccine, says the military doctor.
He said that as of Saturday, there were more than 90,000 people scheduled for January, but appointments are still being made and there are 500,000 free programming slots for January on the national vaccine programming platform.
When could the second stage of vaccination begin
“I intend to start vaccination for the second stage as of mid-January, especially with the most vulnerable people, people at risk of developing serious infections and also at risk of spreading the infection quickly, as is the case of those admitted to the centers, medical and social centers and residential centers, ”said the coordinator of the vaccination campaign.
To date, some 150,000 doses of vaccine have been brought to Romania, of which slightly more than 13,000 have been used, but until the end of January they are expected to come and the rest to 750,000 doses. They are more than enough to cover the first stage, in which 300,000 people would be expected to be vaccinated, explained Valeriu Gheorghiță.
„For the entire month of January, including the December stretch, we are talking about 750,000 doses, so basically this amount of dose is enough to cover first phase, a step that, in fact, comprises an estimated number of approx. 300,000 people, both medical and social workers. If we think about the fact that we would have a coverage rate, theoretically, of one hundred percent, even in this case We can provide both the initial dose and the booster., and we still have a remainder of about 150,000 doses that can be assigned, at least in the first phase, for the staff of residential and medico-social centers, because we are talking about a series of 40,000 people hospitalized in these centers, “said Valeriu Gheorghiță.
The vaccination capacity for the second stage, when the more than 900 vaccination centers will be activated, will be more than 140,000 people per day, but the vaccination rate must be measured according to the availability of the vaccine. “If we had so many vaccinations then I could tell you that During March, we could already be talking about the third stage of vaccination of the general population“Said the doctor.
By February, for example, Romania should receive around 160,000 doses of vaccine per week..
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
