Prime Minister Florin Citu considers that, during this period, political leaders should "totally dissociate" themselves from those who conduct anti-vaccination campaigns and considers that the protest that took place on Saturday was a "cynical one" ".
"We also looked at yesterday's protest, a cynical protest on the day when we had the largest number of vaccinated people and we see that we have many explanations. One of them is that we have a party in Romania and a movement supported by parties that would have been somewhat pro-European with an anti-vaccination message. The message, which is unfortunately taken over by television and carried on, is a message that we must fight against. Our campaign was presented on television, but I don't think it was presented as much as these messages were presented. I think that when we all agree that we need to promote more pro-vaccination messages and fewer anti-vaccination messages, we will see more people vaccinated. At the same time, I want to say that it is the responsibility of each of us to get vaccinated, and we need to keep in mind that when we get vaccinated, we protect ourselves and those around us: our families, our loved ones. (...) The irresponsibility of some people falls afterwards on the shoulders of other Romanians. (...) It would help during this period for political leaders to completely dissociate themselves form those who have these anti-vaccination campaigns. I haven't seen them yet, but we will see whether in the next period," said Citu.
According to the prime minister, the vaccination campaign has "been revived", with the number of people being immunized increasing daily, Agerpres.ro informs.
"The vaccination campaign has been revived. The number of people [getting vaccinated, ed.n.] has increased. Every day, more and more people are getting vaccinated. We will promote as before. I am here today to get vaccinated with the third dose," said Florin Citu.
He said unvaccinated people will have to follow the imposed rules.
"We have seen that other countries have gone in this direction as well. We use the same method: people who are vaccinated do not have these restrictions, unvaccinated people will have to follow these rules," the prime minister said.