If the current vaccination rate is maintained, 8.5 million Romanians will be immunised by the end of the year, according to vaccination czar Valeriu Gheorghiţă. He stressed that this rate is “totally insufficient”.

“In the week of November 1-7, 283,967 people were vaccinated with a single dose, the majority being people under the age of 60. About 71,850 are people over the age of 60. We have a decrease of over 50% in the total number of people vaccinated with a single dose in the previous week, compared to the previous week, when there were over 575,000 new vaccinated people. At the end of this year would be about 8.5 million — much less than originally expected — which is about 50% of the eligible population over 12 years”, Gheorghiţă told a news conference at the government palace this afternoon.