[ad_1]
However, according to Jurgita Grebenkovienė, these people will only be vaccinated against the coronavirus after the antibody test has been performed. Among other things, it does not rule out the possibility that other groups are not vaccinated in addition to the mandatory tests.
“Nursing, care … There is a vision that we should do tests before vaccination, because we know that there are really few vaccines. They are not enough for everyone. The idea is that we don’t get vaccinated after getting sick, we have to do antibody tests beforehand. With self-government, we begin to prepare for that.
The plan is to vaccinate them (nursing home residents – BNS) next week. The vaccines will arrive at the infirmary and the attention next week ”, announced Monday the Chancellor in a session of the Commission of Rights of Disability of the Seimas.
Regarding the “delays in nursing and care” due to the delay in nursing and care, the “peasant” parliamentarian Linas Kukuraitis, because people in this group are going to undergo antibody tests before vaccination, J. Grebenkovienė announced that mandatory testing before vaccination is being considered for all groups.
“It appears that we are moving toward mandatory pre-vaccination testing for all groups,” he said.
According to J. Grebenkovienė, residents of the country, who have restricted movement and, as a result, will have difficulty entering medical institutions where they will be vaccinated, will be vaccinated at the place of residence of those people.
“It will be ensured that residents receive vaccination service in their places of residence,” said J. Grebenkovienė.
According to her, there are still no solutions, how and from what these mobile groups of vaccinators will be formed: “It has not yet been discussed with the municipalities.”
J. Grebenkovienė also reported that from now on the coronavirus vaccine will arrive in Lithuania every Monday for three months.
According to her, more vaccines are planned for Lithuania in March than will be received so far.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, there are now about 200 nursing homes and nursing homes in Lithuania, there are 26 thousand of them. patients and employs 14 thousand. workers.
The first batch of vaccines was distributed to five major hospitals in the country last weekend, medical vaccination began, and these doses of vaccine were used in the middle of last week. A person needs two doses of the vaccine three weeks apart to develop immunity.
The BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine is the first and so far the only one authorized in the European Union.
[ad_2]
