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The government meeting approved such an amendment to the advance purchase agreement with the pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer to acquire 550 thousand. additional doses of vaccine against coronavirus infection.
Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys stated that negotiations between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies on the purchase of a larger quantity of vaccines are still ongoing, and that additional doses of vaccines would arrive in Lithuania in the second half of this year. .
“Currently, there is an intense discussion between the companies and the European Commission about the need for the parties to buy additional doses, and before January 8, Lithuania must inform the EC about the need to buy additional doses. This process is in progress. march, of course, the end result will depend on the negotiations, “said A. Dulkys.
According to A. Dulkis, these vaccines would be necessary for the vaccination of several other priority groups: they could be vaccinated with risk factors, that is, people under 65 years of age with serious diseases, employees who perform important functions: public order, fire and rescue, customs, border guards, prison officials, soldiers, educational personnel.
The BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine is currently the only one licensed in the European Union. In Lithuania, medical personnel are still vaccinating a vaccine against coronavirus infection.
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.
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