| Date | 27 December 2020–present |
|---|---|
| Location | Nationwide |
| Cause | COVID-19 pandemic in Romania |
| Organised by | Government of Romania |
| Participants | Primary course[a]: 8,140,137[1] 42.4% 9.2% 0.1% |
| Website | vaccinare-covid |
COVID-19 vaccination in Romania started on 27 December 2020. It was announced that the process would be divided into three phases. Medical personnel would be vaccinated first (first phase), followed by the population at risk (second phase), and finally by the rest of the population (third phase).[2] Vaccination was declared free and non-mandatory.[2] As of March 2022, five types of vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Janssen and Novavax) were authorized to be used in Romania.[3] This is the largest vaccination campaign in the modern history of Romania.[4]
Former PNL Prime Minister and self-appointed coordinator of the vaccination campaign Florin Cîțu aimed to have 10.4 million people (or 70% of the country's population) vaccinated by the end of September 2021.[5] However, by the end of September 2021, Romania had the second lowest vaccination rate in the European Union, 33%, just before Bulgaria,[6] and sold part of its expiring vaccine stock to Denmark,[7] Ireland,[8] and South Korea.[9] The low vaccination rate had exposed entrenched distrust in state institutions, misinformation campaigns, poor rural infrastructure, and weak vaccine education.[10][11]
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- ^ Finnegan, Gary (13 September 2021). "Romania's COVID-19 vaccine goes off the rails". VaccinesToday. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
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