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“Today, Lithuania has started the long-awaited vaccination of our people, which is a big step in the return of the country to normal life. The European Union has shown determination and unity not only in its relations with vaccine manufacturers, but also people in the EU countries have started to get vaccinated at the same time and have the same right to feel stronger and safer in the face of a pandemic, “the head of state wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
G. Nausėda also stated that he had spoken with the vaccinated doctors in Lithuania.
“Aidas Kaušas and Stefanija Jatulevičienė are the employees of the Šiauliai Hospital, the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and the administrator of one of the COVID-19 nursing departments. They, like dozens of other doctors, whose faces and names are often not even known to those rescued, were the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in Lithuania. They were both glad that the vaccination was like a st. “Christmas is a continuation, because I was looking forward to the arrival of the vaccine,” said the president.
According to him, the first vaccines are “a support not only for our health care providers, but also for the support of the whole of society.”
“Ten thousand protected doctors means one hundred thousand, and perhaps more, protected Lithuanians: our grandparents, parents, ours,” wrote G. Nausėda.
The first doctors to begin vaccinating the COVID-19 vaccine, developed by BioNTech and Pfizer at five central treatment facilities in the country began Sunday morning.
The first shipment with 9,750 doses of vaccine arrived in Lithuania on Saturday morning and was stored in the warehouses of the Emergency Health Center. During the day, the vaccine was distributed to hospitals in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys, which are responsible for the management of COVID-19 in the regions.
Vilnius and Kaunas counties received 2,925 doses of vaccine, Klaipėda counties – 1950, and Šiauliai and Panevėžys – 975 doses each.
It is planned to use all the vaccines received on Saturday when the first doctors are vaccinated. The second dose for these co-vaccinated personnel, who need to be vaccinated after 21 days, will be administered in subsequent shipments.
Vaccination with COVID-19 is starting across the European Union these days.
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