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Vaccination against the coronavirus (COVID-19) by medical personnel began on Sunday. The Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys hospitals agreed to start vaccination at the same time, at 8 am. All doctors in the country are expected to be vaccinated in the first quarter of next year.
On Monday morning, at the Santara clinics, Professor Vytautas Kasiulevičius, a family doctor at the Santara clinics, was also vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“Many thanks to the people of my country who allowed the doctors to be the first, to my colleagues, to the doctors of the Covid-19 units who endured the hell of the pandemic, who protected not only many patients, but also other colleagues ”, writes prof. Vytautas Kasiulevičius on his Facebook account.
Thank you very much to the people of my country for allowing the doctors to be the first, my colleagues, the doctors of the Covid-19 units, …
Posted by Vytautas Kasiulevicius in 2020 Sunday, December 27
Lithuania has entered into agreements with six vaccine manufacturers and intends to purchase more than 7 million of them. dose of vaccine. They should be sufficient to vaccinate at least 70%. population of the country. According to experts, such a proportion of the vaccinated population would provide herd immunity against the coronavirus.
The second shipment of the vaccine is expected to arrive in our country on Tuesday.
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