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“Our forces, two policemen and an Aro car, have joined the border post, joined the escort and escorted us to the emergency depot,” said Jurgita Grebenkovienė, Chancellor of the Ministry of Health (SAM).
According to the Chancellor, such increased safety is not a requirement of the European Union or the vaccine manufacturer. It was decided that the vaccine trucks would be accompanied by police teams after reports of possible attacks on the vaccines surfaced in public.
“Just when there are multiple messages about possible promotions of some kind, attacks that there are possible risk factors, it is better that the parties protect themselves to avoid those incidents. With that intention and in order to manage risks, we use police teams and escorts, ”said the SAM Chancellor.
Jurgita Grebenkovienė
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According to her, there was talk of risk factors in other countries, but Lithuania itself has not received specific threats. Still, it was decided to insure in advance.
Currently, each truck transporting vaccines to different cities in Lithuania is accompanied by 2 police teams.
According to J. Grebenkovienė, the vaccines arrived with transport from the manufacturer of Pfizer.
The first vaccination in Lithuania is already on Sunday
Delfi recalls that about 10,000 vaccines against the coronavirus arrived in Lithuania on Saturday. All of them will be used for medical vaccines.
“Employees of COVID-19 units, ambulances and intensive care resuscitation units should be vaccinated first,” said J. Grebenkovienė. The Chancellor also added:
“Doctors are expected to use all doses without leaving yet [rezerve] second dose ”.
Vaccine for coronavirus
Vaccination should begin this Sunday, at 8 in the morning, in different hospitals in Lithuanian cities.
A second batch of vaccines is expected on December 29.
According to the Chancellor, the counties of Vilnius and Kaunas will receive 3,000. vaccine doses, Klaipėda county – about 2 thousand, and Šiauliai and Panevėžys – about 1 thousand. dose.
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