News: How Romania has become a new focus of Covid-19 in the European Union

© Daniel Mihailescu, AFP despite the new Soaring of Covid-19 due to the low vaccination of Romanians, anti-vaccines and anti- Masks showed Saturday, October 2, in Bucharest, against the precautions taken by the authorities.

Record of contamination and death ... in Romania, the fourth wave of coronavirus turns to the disaster, with only 29% of Romanians vaccinated and a system. dilapidated health.

in Romania as elsewhere, anti-vaccines and anti-masks are impervious to the reality of the facts and numbers. More than 15,000 Romanians have demonstrated Saturday, October 2 in the capital Bucharest to protest the establishment, from the next day, to access leisure areas like cinemas, restaurants, sports halls ... Or against the obligation to wear the outdoor mask in the areas of the country most affected.

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A vaccination that does not take off

Romania does not have the choice. She faces a fourth wave of coronavirus , worse than the previous three. The country beats, day after day, its records of contamination (12,590 on Saturday) and faces the countries of the European Union, reported to its population of 19 million. Same thing for deaths: 166 a day on the last week. In Europe, only Serbia or Montenegro are worse ...

and this is just a beginning. The fourth wave of the pandemic will last at least until mid-November and this will have dramatic consequences , estimates the epidemiologist Alexandru Rafil, cited by the website had observed.

How did we get there? Simply by the failure of the vaccination campaign. Despite the availability of doses, only 29% of Romanians received a dose (75% of French). Again, Romania is 26th out of 27 in the EU; Only Bulgaria is worse. Opinion surveys show that the population does not trust vaccines, not more than in those who govern.

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An underfunded health system

This distrust, nourished by ten years of nepotism and corruption scandals, is well before the emergence of coronavirus. But it has been strengthened by clumsiness of power that has minimized risks and reopens the economy in a big spring. The current Conservative government is also weakened, under threat, on Tuesday, October 5, a motion of censure in Parliament.

In the absence of sufficient vaccination, intensive care services are now fully engorged by serious cases. It is better to avoid hospital stays in a country with underfunded health system. Friday, October 1, a fire in Constanta's intensive care unit (South-East) has seven dead, including five patients. They are added to the twenty dead patients in one year, in fires similar to Bucharest and Piatra Neamt (Northeast) . In April, three COVID-19 patients in resuscitation were died in a capital hospital, after failure of the oxygen feeding system.