so, let's bring cnn ben wideman back in here.harest, romania, as we mentioned. we've been seeing a lot of the anti-vax sentiment. particularly evident in remain i can't. what are the main reasons for resistance against getting vaccinated and certainly when there is proof and data out there that this can stop you from getting sick or dying? >> reporter: rosemary, the reasons are quite similar to those described by salma. in austria, fake news, misinformation. here the other additional factor is, of course, there are many people who have more faith in religion than in science, and so, yes, the vaccination rates are the second-lowest in europe after bulgaria. now, the government here recently was considering imposing a green pass along the lines of what italy now has in place, whereby if you are not vaccinated or have not been tested recently for -- tested negative recently for covid, you cannot go to work. when they were publicly considering this measure, the vaccination rates jumped up, but then they saw that there was opposition.

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ben wideman in bucharest. ch, ben. >>> in jerusalem, a recent uptick in transmission rate, that might mean a new spike really on infections. help us make sense of why we're seeing this, why we're seeing a rise in the r rate here. >> reporter: yeah, isa, israel is often seen as a glimpse into the future of coronavirus because they were so far ahead of many countries when it came to vaccination. and when it came to rolling out the booster campaign, which happened months ago. and so although the numbers a few months ago started to be very encouraging where the rates really started to go down, a few thousand cases a day, you can really see the rate starting to decrease. now the r rate has started to creep up and actually as of this mourning it has hit that one rate. and that is the rate which health experts have so worried about once the r rate, infection rate hits one or above. they are very much worried about a new wave. however, experts are wary about calling this a new wave just yet and that's partly because th