As the EU nations with the smallest amount of vaccinated people, Bulgaria and Romania prepare for the next COVID wave brought on by Omicron and holiday travel.
's least vaccinated countries—are preparing for the next wave of COVID-19 as the Omicron variant rapidly spreads around the continent.
Romania is the second-least vaccinated EU nation, with about 40 percent of the population having two doses. About 75 percent of the vaccinated population has not yet gotten a booster, according to Adriana Pistol, director of Romania's National Center for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases.
Romania saw huge lines at borders before Christmas as hundreds of thousands of citizens flocked home, many from the West. The government started requiring travelers to complete passenger locator forms as of December 20 to help track infections, but Pistol said many have failed to fill them out.
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