Dust has signed an order on how people will be vaccinated against COVID-19

The order states that COVID-19 is primarily administered to staff providing personal inpatient medical care to COVID-19 patients and to students who are involved in service delivery and who come into contact with COVID-19 patients.

It is then planned to vaccinate resuscitation and intensive care personnel, emergency department personnel, as well as emergency inpatient personal healthcare personnel, ambulance brigade personnel, and students providing these services.

Vaccination should be followed by medical personnel providing services to patients at increased risk of COVID-19 infection, such as those receiving chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment.

Next, vaccination is scheduled for patients at highest risk. Priority is given to patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease receiving continuous renal replacement therapy. The following are patients who have had hematopoietic stem cell or organ transplants.

Patients with oncohematologic disease will be vaccinated when targeted chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or oncohematologic disease continues or is completed up to 24 months after completion. They are followed by individuals with immunodeficiency diseases with an antibody production defect who are receiving immunoglobulin replacement therapy.

Then, it is planned to vaccinate other staff members of personal health care facilities who contribute to the treatment of COVID-19, as well as people who volunteer in medical facilities for at least 4 hours. for no more than 14 consecutive days.

It is planned to vaccinate employees of medical institutions dependent on the Ministries of National Defense and Justice, as well as employees who come into contact with patients. After them are the employees of mobile points and fever clinics.

It is then planned to vaccinate patients receiving supportive treatment and nursing services and employees who provide these services, followed by residents of social care institutions and employees and individuals who provide these services at home.

Vaccination of these groups would lead to increased vaccination of laboratory personnel conducting COVID-19 testing, including sampling, followed by COVID-19 epidemiological diagnostics specialists who must attend outbreaks.

The vaccination of all these groups is expected to include the vaccination of the remaining health workers who do not belong to other categories. Then the pharmacy staff would be vaccinated.

First of all, the elderly

After the vaccination of medical personnel, priority will continue to be given to the elderly population: people aged 80 years and over will be vaccinated first. It is planned to vaccinate anyone over the age of 65 in descending order of priority.

Vaccination would continue to be provided to educational personnel and people working with preschool, preschool and primary school children, as well as children with special needs.

Next, it is planned to vaccinate people under 65 but who have at least one risk factor, giving priority to those with more than one. These include patients receiving immunosuppressive, immunomodulatory or active treatment for oncological diseases, diabetic patients with complications, severe chronic cardiovascular disease with complications, patients with severe chronic lung disease, patients with severe chronic liver disease, patients with severe chronic liver disease.

After the vaccination of this group, it is expected to continue vaccinating employees who perform functions of public importance, maintaining public order, carrying out fire protection and rescue work, as well as customs, border guards, the military, places of detention, institutions educational, energy, food industry.

Vaccination of all these groups would initiate vaccination for the rest of the population, starting with the elderly.

Sick people: don’t get vaccinated

The order stipulates that people who have had COVID-19 in the past three months will not be vaccinated unless an antibody test shows that the person does not have antibodies.

The order recommends that antibody tests be performed prior to vaccination and that those who do not get vaccinated.

Experts have previously said that COVID-19 antibodies provide the same protection for the body as vaccines.

Dulkys said Tuesday that all doctors are scheduled to be vaccinated in January and the entire population is expected to be vaccinated in 2021, but that will depend on how many vaccines are approved and how quickly they are available.

So far, the only vaccines approved in the European Union are BioNTech and Pfizer. It requires extremely low temperatures.

Lithuania has received three shipments of this vaccine so far. The Ministry of Health has received confirmation that over the next three months, 20,000 people will arrive in Lithuania every week. 475 doses of vaccine.