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The second tranche of anti-COVID vaccines will arrive in Romania on Tuesday, December 29. It is about 140,400 doses of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, which this time will be transported by air, to reach the Otopeni, Timisoara and Cluj-Napoca airports.
This second shipment of vaccines was originally scheduled to arrive on Monday, but was postponed due to problems with Pfizer. Delivery was delayed in eight countries due to these manufacturer technical problems. Romania should have received 144,000 doses of vaccine on Monday.
Transport is provided by the manufacturing company, even at the time of transport to the ground. The vaccines will be transported in optimal safety conditions, in special containers with carbonic ice and sealed aluminum foil.
Around 7:50, the vaccine doses will arrive at the Henri Coandă airport in Otopeni, which will then be transported by road by the manufacturer to the storage center at the Cantacuzino Institute and to the regional centers in Brașov, Craiova, Constanța and Iasi.
Around 11:00, two other planes will land at Timișoara and Cluj-Napoca airports, and the vaccine doses will be transported, also by road, to the storage centers of the military hospitals in Timișoara and Cluj.
How the vaccines will be distributed
Vaccine quantities will be distributed as follows:
Bucharest: 40,950 doses
Iasi: 25,350 doses
Cluj-Napoca: 29,250 doses
Constant: 8,775 doses
Craiova: 12,675
Brașov: 12,675
Timisoara: 10,725
Vaccination against COVID-19 began in Romania on Sunday morning, after a first transport of vaccines arrived in Romania on Saturday, by land. The first to be vaccinated are front-line doctors and nurses, and a 26-year-old nurse from the Matei Balş Institute, who cared for the first patient infected with SARS COV2, was the first Romanian to be vaccinated. The authorities intend to complete, at the beginning of February, the first stage, that is, to vaccinate more than half a million medical personnel. And in half a year the goal is to reach an immunization level of more than 60 percent of the population.
