COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
The COVID-19 pandemic in Romania is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Romania on 26 February 2020, when the first case in Gorj County was confirmed.
| COVID-19 pandemic in Romania | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Romania |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | Prigoria, Gorj |
| Arrival date | 26 February 2020 (4 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 4 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 3,526,592 |
| Severe cases | 903 |
| Hospitalized cases | 9,781 |
| Recovered | 1,899,522 |
Deaths | 68,710 |
| Fatality rate | 1.95% |
Territories | Bucharest and 41 counties |
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As of 31 January 2022, the National Institute of Public Health has reported around 2,200,000 cases, 1,800,000 recoveries, and 60,000 COVID-19-related deaths. More than 11.7 million RT-PCR tests and more than 7.3 million rapid antigen tests have been processed.
An anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaign, part of a global effort to slow down the spread of the virus, started on 27 December 2020. As of 27 January 2022, over 50% of the country's eligible population received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as part of an ongoing national vaccination campaign.
As of 21 January 2023, 16,102,916 COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered in Romania.