{"id":85725,"date":"2021-09-23T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85725"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:50:19","slug":"romania-closes-all-117-covid-vaccination-centers-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85725","title":{"rendered":"Romania Closes All 117 Covid Vaccination Centers Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Romania closes 117 Covid vaccination centres<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Representative Image. \" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-84193914,imgsize-50849,width-400,resizemode-4\/84193914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Times of India<\/p>\n<p>BUCHAREST: Declining demand for coronavirus vaccinations in\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Romania\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Romania\">Romania<\/a>\u00a0has prompted authorities to close 117 vaccination centres and to reduce the schedule at 371 others, health officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the previous week, we re-evaluated the efficiency of fixed vaccination centers. About 80% of fixed vaccination centres vaccinate less than 25% of the vaccination capacity allocated to each stream,\u201d national vaccination committee chief\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Valeriu-Gheorghita\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Valeriu-Gheorghita\">Valeriu Gheorghita<\/a>\u00a0said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of daily vaccinations in Romania has consistently dropped from a mid-May peak of around 120,000 a day to less than 20,000 a day over the last week. Just 24% of people in Romania &#8211; a country of more than 19 million &#8211; have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The number of daily coronavirus infections in recent weeks has dropped to record lows, but\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Gheorghita\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Gheorghita\">Gheorghita<\/a>\u00a0warned on Tuesday of a possible resurgence due to the delta strain, which was first identified in India.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1416990242210-7-84193852-1\" class=\"outstreamad\" data-videoarticle=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4349ef56-bb84-48fa-ba11-d5217eaeca9a-0-1\" class=\"_3L4sE\"><\/div>\n<p>If a resurgence increased demand for vaccines, he said, the closed vaccine centers could quickly resume activities. Authorities have reported more than a million infections since the pandemic began and 34,021 have died.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/romania-closes-117-covid-vaccination-centres\/articleshow\/84193852.cms\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/romania-closes-117-covid-vaccination-centres\/articleshow\/84193852.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania closes 117 Covid vaccination centres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}