The authorities are concerned about the rate of COVID-19 vaccination in the recent past. Acting minister of health Tatiana Zatîc said that even if we have now more vaccine doses compared with the start of the immunization campaign, the population’s interest in vaccination has decreased. Daily, the number of persons who get the second dose is much higher than of the persons who receive the first shot, IPN reports.

“We are concerned about the pace of vaccinations in the country. We daily registered by 14,000 vaccine shorts administered as the second dose and only 2,000 shots administered as the first dose. This means the population is again unwilling to get a vaccine. The system can cope and can vaccinate a large number of persons. The people should want it only,” Tatiana Zatîc stated in the talk show “Emphasis on Today” on TVR Moldova channel.

According to official data, the rate of vaccination in Moldova is slightly over 11%. However, specialists say the figure is higher than in Romania or in other states.

“There is an information system at border crossing points. The border police register each citizen who has a vaccine certificate issued abroad. We speak about 50,000 persons who got vaccinated outside the country. This is 2% of the population eligible to be vaccinated who were immunized abroad. Even if we add these 2% to the general rate in the country, we will have a rate of vaccination of about 13% and the picture will not change radically. We try to explain the advantages of vaccination to the population so that this rate grows,” stated Alexei Ceban, of the National Public Health Agency.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, 60,000 vaccine doses were administered during the last seven days and over 500,000 doses since the start of the immunization campaign. More than 82% of the health workers were vaccinated against COVID-19 and this contributed to a 90% decline in the morbidity rate among medical staff.