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“After the vaccine is taken out at 2-8 degrees, it has a shelf life of 5 days. After taking a vial at room temperature, it has a shelf life of 6 hours. There are 5 doses in a vial. These 10,000 doses from this country will be delivered to regional centers, in a typical cold chain of 2-8 degrees.
The immune response begins to be protective 14 days after the first dose, but the benefits are greater after 7 days after the second dose.
The beginning of April is the time when we estimate the beginning of the third stage of vaccination. We do not need investigations that must be done before vaccination, considering that triage is carried out at the vaccination center, ”said Valeriu Gheorghita.
He said the goal of the authorities was to vaccinate 10.7 million citizens.
“About 10 million doses are contracted to Pfizer, but at the European Commission level there are also contracts with other companies, so that we can vaccinate some 10.7 million people in Romania, that is, around 70% of the population. adult.
The duration of the level of protection does not have a firm medical and scientific answer, but it is estimated that it will last longer than the immune response after illness. Only with the correct information can people decide if they want to get vaccinated. Side effects are of mild to moderate intensity, the most common local: pain, redness, local swelling or headache, fever, nausea. There were significant reactions in several people with a significant allergic history.
The president, the prime minister, will be vaccinated at the right time, that is, when the dignitaries’ vaccination stage begins ”, the doctor also specified.
Prime Minister Florin Citu said this Saturday, after the first 10,000 doses of the COVID vaccine arrived at the Cantacuzino Institute warehouse in the capital, that it is an important moment and that Romania will have 10 million doses of vaccine. The transportation of the vaccines was planned by Prime Minister Citu, the head of the DSU, Raed Arafat, the coordinator of the vaccination campaign, Valeriu Gheorghita, the Minister of Health, Vlad Voiculescu, and the Minister of Defense, Nicolae Ciuca.
The boxes with doses of vaccine were unloaded by the military, and after entering the warehouse, where they are kept at a temperature of -80 degrees Celsius, they will be sent to regional centers.
Vaccination begins on Sunday, at 9:00, in the “Matei Bals” and “Victor Babes” hospitals, in the conditions in which the first vaccinated are the doctors and nurses of the first line of fight against the COVID pandemic -19.
The transportation of the vaccines entered the country on Friday, at the Customs House of Nadlac II, and was taken by an escort from the Gendarmerie and the Police, who accompanied it to Bucharest.
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