Protest in Romania over bid to extend COVID health pass to workplaces
Thousands were expected to take to the street of Bucharest on Tuesday as Romanian MPs vote on whether to extend the use of the COVID health pass to the workplace.
Romania has the European Union's second-lowest vaccination rate with just 39.6% of its 19.3 million population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The average for the 31 countries in the EU/EEA are is 67.3%.
Efforts to boost the vaccination rate, including a campaign against misinformation, have largely failed and the new government — made up of the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD), and ethnic Hungarian UDMR — now wants to extend the use of the COVID pass to
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