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“We have already received the second shipment, which is awaiting its advance, its documents are fixed. And, the latest news is that after January 4th. Another shipment of vaccines will arrive in Lithuania.
This means that in this case we will be able to continue the vaccination process in the first week of January and transport the vaccines to 5 coordination centers, ”said A. Dulkys after the government meeting.
At the same time, he reported that today the vaccination will be completed with the first dose of the vaccine.
“As far as I know, around 4 pm The vaccination of the first batch of vaccines in Lithuania will be completed today. This means that almost 10,000 vaccines will have achieved their goals.
It is gratifying that the fact that everything was done at once is positively appreciated. 38 institutions participated in the process, and the vaccination process required about 200 specialists and volunteers from the medical community ”, he commented on the first vaccination process.
Expect a smoother process
Commenting on the situation that not all the smaller hospitals received vaccines, but the larger ones remained, the Minister said that such a situation is inevitable because the quantity of vaccines is limited. However, he said the process would be more closely evaluated and he hoped things would go better over time.
“When we have between 40 and 50 thousand people in the community. People on the front lines and the first shipment: less than 10,000 doses, it is certainly natural that it cannot reach everyone.
But it was agreed that the work would be organized through 5 main centers. And these are the great chimneys themselves, and we believed that those regional centers know better than we do in the center who, what and how much it should be ”, said the Minister.
He did not hide the fact that a variety of news reaches the ministry.
“We not only follow the media, we also collect information independently, and we will talk with the heads of medical institutions about the problems of vaccine distribution or vaccination.
And, as I mentioned, after January 4th. we are already planning the second stage of vaccination. So, I think we will draw some conclusions and learn from them.
I hope things go better and better at each stage. Most importantly, the positive message is that we are seeing signs that the vaccine supply should be more and more regular. And this means that the distribution of an apple to ten children, as they say, will end soon ”, commented A. Dulkys.
Registry of newly fixed cases
Last day 3,934 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Lithuania, another 75 deaths from COVID-19 were recorded, the Statistics Department reported on Wednesday.
As usual, morbidity and mortality statistics for the last day are updated at 9.30 a.m., but Wednesday was late and incomplete: there were a shortage of people in recovery and currently ill. Also data on the number of studies carried out.
The head of the Statistics Department Jūratė Petrauskienė BNS stated that she did not know the reasons for this, suggested that she report to the National Center for Public Health, which has been under cyber attack these days.
Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has infected 138,000 people in the country. 219 people.
A total of 1,422 people died of coronavirus in Lithuania and 696 people were infected from other causes.
More than 2.5 thousand people are treated in hospitals. COVID-19 patients, 210 in resuscitation
The country’s hospitals are currently treating 2,525 COVID-19 patients, 210 of whom are in resuscitation, Statistics Lithuania said Wednesday.
1,556 patients are treated with oxygen masks and 129 people are given artificial lung ventilation.
Hospitals occupied a total of 8,094 beds out of 16,000. 647.
Of the 683 resuscitation beds, 443 were occupied. Of the 635 beds adapted for pulmonary ventilation, 280 were occupied. Of the 6,400 beds that could be treated with oxygen masks, 2,566 were occupied.
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