Romania's largest "vaccination marathon," aimed at further boosting COVID-19 jab rollout in the country, kicked off here Friday.
The event started at 4 p.m. Friday and will continue until 8 a.m. Monday at the Palace Hall and the National Library, which had set up 40 and 10 vaccination rooms respectively.
With the help of about 1,200 volunteers -- among them doctors, nurses, medical students and residents -- the "marathon" will see vaccinations continue around the clock during this period.
"The sooner we get vaccinated -- we have the doses -- the more we can return to a normal life, the life we had before the pandemic," Prime Minister Florin Citu said when visiting the mass immunization center at the Palace Hall.