who reported adverse reactions was 37; 63% of them were female. by manufacturer, most adverse reactions have been reported in people vaccinated with oxford/astrazeneca (0.72% of the total number of doses administered), followed by moderna (0.23%), pfizer/biontech (0.08%) and johnson & johnson (0.06%). between 21 december 2020 and 19 march 2021, cncav received five reports of death among people who received a covid-19 vaccine. however, the national institute of public health (insp) classified them as "coincidences", ruling out any direct link between vaccination and deaths. moreover, between 1 january and 14 march 2021, insp recorded 89 deaths (a fatality rate of 0.002% of the people who completed the vaccination scheme) among covid-19-positive people who previously got vaccinated; 12 of them received both doses. statistics total number of covid-19 vaccinations administered the following chart shows the total number of doses administered. daily number of covid-19 vaccinations administered by manufacturer the following chart shows the daily number of doses administered, broken down by vaccine manufacturer. percentage of vaccinated according to the vaccine received (as of 4 february 2022) pfizer/biontech (64.8%) johnson & johnson (25.03%) oxford/astrazeneca (5.23%) moderna (5.04%) covid-19 vaccinations by county rural 36.77% urban 41.26% vaccine coverage as of 5 january 2022 as of 2 november 2021 countypopulationeligible population % % of eligiblepopulation bucharest 1,835,2581,604,37354.36%62.19% cluj 709,585626,67948.29%54.68% constanța 672,142584,77944.13%50.72% sibiu 401,301347,11541.94%48.49% brașov 553,520478,19939.54%45.77% ilfov 486,744421,80839.66%45.77% timiș 705,914619,96739.86%45.39% mureș 533,186463,40737.29%42.9% tulcea 192,101169,50137.8%42.84% prahova 712,447633,66738.05%42.78% alba 323,879286,45837.84%42.78% dolj 621,410548,94137.62%42.59% vâlcea 348,377313,03237.56%41.8% sălaj 209,939181,76935.71%41.24% hunedoara 380,105338,98636.16%40.55% argeș 575,027510,59335.66%40.16% galați 500,213439,54435.13%39.98% iași 792,692675,30433.58%39.41% satu mare 331,217287,90234.1%39.23% bistrița-năsăud 277,849238,33033.6%39.17% gorj 311,985280,42934.72%38.62% ialomița 254,405220,56433.44%38.57% caraș-severin 269,551241,09433.48%37.43% dâmbovița 487,115432,37633.17%37.37% bihor 560,203488,61032.39%37.13% maramureș 458,636402,08432.43%36.99% călărași 280,252245,12532.23%36.85% arad 415,910365,95032.25%36.65% olt 389,730349,85532.21%35.88% teleorman 328,867295,41831.48%35.04% brăila 285,916255,80831.15%34.82% buzău 409,162363,01730.24%34.08% neamț 438,460382,27529.56%33.91% mehedinți 238,907214,21530.14%33.62% vaslui 372,040316,35828.24%33.21% harghita 301,465262,29028.11%32.3% vrancea 317,567276,70026.73%30.68% botoșani 376,562328,48425.96%29.76% bacău 581,442502,17825.53%29.56% giurgiu 263,263233,15926.13%29.5% covasna 201,475174,53423.05%26.61% suceava 623,019529,85922.07%25.95% efficacy according to the national center for surveillance and control of communicable diseases, between 27 december 2020 and 30 september 2021, 28,929 people (or 0.52% of all people vaccinated with the first dose) tested positive for sars-cov-2 after being administered the first dose of vaccine. the median time from the first dose to the date of confirmation was 14 days. during the same period, 38,604 people (or 0.84% of all people vaccinated with both doses) became infected with sars-cov-2 after the second dose; most were asymptomatic or mild cases. the median time from the second dose to the date of confirmation was 146 days. a preliminary analysis of the effectiveness of vaccination against covid-19 in february–may 2021 showed that full-dose vaccination reduces the risk of death from covid-19 by 14 times, the risk of hospitalization and icu admission by 12 times and the risk of sars-cov-2 infection by 10 times. opinion polls and vaccine hesitancy similar to neighboring countries, a significant portion of the romanian population is reluctant to get vaccinated. a recent study among europeans aged 50+ showed that vaccine hesitant individuals are mainly adults aged 50–65 years, with lower education, and residing in central and eastern european countries. the most commonly cited reasons are fear of adverse reactions and distrust of the vaccine's effectiveness. in september 2020, before the launch of the first anti-covid-19 vaccine, only 29% of romanians in urban areas were determined to get vaccinated, but by february 2021, 51% of them said they intended to schedule a vaccination. the vaccination intention was higher among men, people over 45, people with higher education and people with high incomes in urban areas. for a short time, in the first weeks of 2021, romania was among the most vaccinated countries of eu. but romania was also the first eu country to open the vaccination campaign towards the general population over 18 years and the public was immediately bombarded with some highly mediatised cases of young or middle-aged people that unexpectedly died after vaccination. among them the most notorious cases were those of the young wife of a handball player from dinamo bucharest and the case of bogdan berki, a young student (both cases registered in may 2021). such early unfortunate events, and many other, were instrumental in establishing a highly distrust in vaccines among the general public, despite the fact that the authorities always denied any link between such unfortunate events and the vaccines. beside that, the coming of omicron and the very mild omicron waves during the winter of 2021-2022 (much milder than in the western european countries that sported very high rates of vaccination) blocked once for all any intention regarding the vaccination and the vaccination rates abysmally plummeted by the month of march 2022. the studies on correlation between religiosity and vaccine hesitancy are vast. on october 19, 2022, a paper appeared in the scientific journal vaccines analyzing the correlation of prayer frequency and covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among older adults in europe. though analyzing religion and spirituality is difficult, by analyzing how often people pray (prayer frequency) the authors found that "daily praying, as compared to praying 'weekly or less' or never, was mostly reported among those being vaccine-hesitant, being female, having a lower educational level, not having a partner in their household, having lower wealth, or having three diseases or more". it is a known fact that romania is one of the most religious country in europe, as 84% of the population considering that religion is important for them. the authors speculate that "people may be vaccine-hesitant because they believe that god will protect them (restful religious), or because they fear both the covid-19 disease and the vaccine (crisis religious)". however, the authors also say that more studies are needed that include the role of trust in the government and in science, as those factor also strongly correlate with vaccine hesitancy. though vaccine hesitancy appears to be stronger in central and eastern europe compared to other european regions, it is present and positively correlated with religiosity all around the world, not just the regions analyzed, as other studies have found. some people believe that the anti-vaccine movement is closer to the orthodox church, linking the people who manifest against vaccines to divine inspiration and grace. in november 2021, suceava county had the lowest vaccination rate in the country, and the doctor who managed the county's main hospital reported religious influence against vaccination. "very few are pro-vaccine, and i definitely know some who are anti-vax," the doctor said. in some cases, a person's "priest, or their pastor, has advised them to not get vaccinated, just like that." one priest, during the religious service, recommended that parishioners not to be vaccinated because their tails or scales would grow, referring to the genetic changes that, he believes, are produced by the vaccine. however, other priests and high-profile clergy had been actively promoting the vaccines. one of them, gurie, the bishop of deva, even died of covid in october 2021 despite being vaccinated against it since the beginner of the summer. on february 9, 2022, a paper appeared on the scientific journal vaccines describing the refusal of vaccination against covid-19 in romania as it was measurable in november 2021. the analysis revealed that, although 81% of the respondents to the survey trust the mandatory vaccines under the national scheme and 94.9% of them are jabbed with the aforementioned vaccines, a large portion of them distrust the covid-19 vaccines and showed a high degree of susceptibility to conspiracy theories. this "fear of the vaccine" is determined by conspiracy theories, lack of medical education and fear of novelty. main reasons invoked by people arguing the non-vaccination decision are general distrust of covid-19 vaccines (16%), the belief that these vaccines are an experiment (12.6%) and immediate side effect (8.1%). the percentages were higher in the rural environment. in addition, 74% of the respondents do not trust the medical system and 34.7% do not trust in doctors. most worryingly, 47% of the participants believe there is a world occult organisation that controls the world and wants to reduce the population of the earth (44.1%). from these percentages, it follows that almost 30% of the total population of romania believes in a conspiracy scenario. in addition, 49.8% consider that vaccination does not want to eradicate covid-19, 40.9% believe that covid-19 vaccines lead to infertility or death, 38.1% say the vaccines were created to reduce the aging population, 34.4% question the existence of the covid-19 pandemic, 33.2% believe that doctors are paid to inoculate a vaccine that would help reduce earth's population, and 13% believe in the conspiracy theory that the vaccines are intended to implant a microchip in one's body. almost half of those who refuse to be vaccinated consider themselves a kind of heroic apostle of the human race fighting for its purity with a powerful, unnamed manipulative occult organisation, enriched by the sale to vaccines that will lead to genetic modifications of the species. the lack of an elementary medical culture of the people and a lack of a state-led vaccination campaign lead to such a scenario that creates a conspiratorial world to which more and more people adhere. the study also indicates that mistrust is more likely to be directed towards the new mrna-based types of vaccine, showing that the reluctant people who finally got vaccinated opted for one of the "classical" vaccines (oxford–astrazeneca or janssen).