Almost eight million Romanians (40.1%) are fully vaccinated after the first year of the vaccination campaign, which puts Romania, together with Bulgaria, at the bottom of the European Union, according to the ECDC. On December 14, the European Commission launched a communication campaign on vaccination in Romania. A 40-second video is set to air on Romanian TV networks and radio stations for a period of seven weeks. It includes testimonies of people who have lost loved ones to COVID-19, Euractiv reported. In a video conference with the prefects and representatives of the institutions subsumed to his ministry on Thursday, December 23, Minister of Interior Lucian Bode warned that the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic is only three weeks away, reported Digi24.