Bucharest centenarian completes COVID-19 vaccination

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BUCHAREST, March 28 (Xinhua) -- A female centenarian in Bucharest completed the COVID-19 vaccination after receiving her second shot on Sunday, becoming the oldest vaccinated person in the capital of Romania.

105-year-old Zoea Baltag was accompanied by her granddaughter and great-grandson to a mass vaccination site installed in the Children's Palace in the southern part of the city.

"My granddaughter is a doctor, she persuaded me to get the shots," she said, adding that there were no side effects after the first dose.

Baltag called on more people to get vaccinated, as "the only way to get rid of the pandemic is to get vaccinated."

The local government of the 4th Sector in Bucharest, where the vaccination site is located, presented flowers to Baltag and expressed appreciation for her courage in fighting the virus through vaccination.

As a new wave of COVID-19 pandemic swept Romania, the capital city of Bucharest, with infection incidence of 7.02 per thousand inhabitants in the last 14 days, has become one of the hardest-hit areas in the eastern European country.

At present, the Ilfov County surrounding Bucharest has the highest infection rate in the country, 8.49 per thousand, while another five counties -- Brasov, Cluj, Constanta, Hunedoara and Timis -- have an infection rate between 4.14 and 6.02 per thousand.

The authorities hoped to alleviate the pandemic by stepping up its vaccination campaign that started on Dec. 27, 2020.

So far, 2,913,155 vaccine doses have been administered to 1,939,484 people, among whom 965,813 have received the first dose and 973,671 both.

Currently, three vaccines -- Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca -- have been approved for use in Romania.

Globally, 267 candidate vaccines are still being developed -- 83 of them in clinical trials -- in countries including Germany, China, Russia, Britain and the United States, according to information released by the World Health Organization on March 23. Enditem

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