Romanian government turns to church in COVID crisis

The World

When Europe began its vaccination rollout last December, Romania was one of the fastest out of the block. But that quickly fizzled out and now the country has one of the lowest vaccine-uptake rates in all of the European Union. In the last few weeks, the government has turned to the Romanian Orthodox Church for help. But as our Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, the church doesn’t seem all that interested.

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