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The purchase of these vaccines was still being considered by the outgoing cabinet in November, but as the Ministry of Health pointed out on Wednesday, “due to a possible technical error” the government protocol did not indicate approval for pro rata beginning. The specific number of vaccines was also not specified.
Scanpix Photo / CureVac Vaccine
“Yesterday we received a request from the European Commission to confirm the final amount, whether Lithuania will continue to comply pro rata principle and will reserve that 1.4 million amount. We propose not to change anything, to follow this principle, only this time to register it in the protocol, ”said Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys at the meeting.
Photo by Arno Strumila / 15min / Arūnas Dulkys
Lithuania has decided to buy vaccines from six companies: Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Sanofi and GSK, BioNTech and Pfizer and CureVac. In total, it is currently planned to buy about 7.8 million. dose.
Several thousand doses of the first bioNTech and Pfizer vaccine in the European Union reached Lithuania and other countries over Christmas. The first doctors to get vaccinated.
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