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Health Minister Aistė Šuksta told BNS on Friday evening that if it became clear that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers BioNTech and Pfizer had reduced the planned quantities of the vaccine to be delivered in the near future, the vaccine would be used only for the booster shot for the second week of February.
Meanwhile, the Moderna vaccine will be used for further vaccination of priority groups.
On December 27, the first physicians launched CONID-19, developed by BioNTech and Pfizer at five central treatment facilities in the country.
This vaccine is administered twice with an interval of three weeks after the first vaccination and adequate protection of the immune system is achieved one week after the second vaccination.
The first physicians to work with COVID-19 patients.
It is planned to vaccinate 100 doctors at the Klaipeda University Hospital
Klaipeda University Hospital (KUL) shared a post on their Facebook account announcing the start of booster shots.
“KUL doctors are happy with the second vaccine and say it will bring more peace and hope to return to normal life,” the KUL account said.
“We will feel more secure, but we do not intend to relax. We know that this pandemic will not end so quickly.
Patients need us, so it was not even thought of giving up the vaccine. Vaccination is a science-based way to protect against insidious coronavirus, ”says one of the first KUL staff to be vaccinated with a second dose of vaccine.
About 100 doctors are planned to be vaccinated on Sunday, KUL reports.
330 doctors were vaccinated at the Kaunas clinics on Sunday
Šarūnas Mačinskas, Head of the Outpatient Services Coordination Service of the Kaunas Clinics, states that 4,675 employees of the Kaunas Clinics have been vaccinated with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The second dose will be given to the same number of doctors as those who became infected with COVID-19 after the first vaccine.
“Workers who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 infection after the first dose of the vaccine will not be vaccinated now. Revaccination is delayed and will be administered 90 days after detection of COVID-19 infection. After the first vaccination, 7 employees of the Kaunas clinics became infected with COVID-19, ”says Š.Mačinskas.
The second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine was also vaccinated today by the Head of the Second Department of COVID-19 of the Kaunas Clinics. Nursing administrator Jolanta Litvinienė, after becoming the first vaccinated medical worker in Kaunas on December 27. “After getting vaccinated, I feel good and have done everything possible. After the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, I didn’t feel any side effects, just a little pain at the puncture site, ”says J. Litvinienė.
VIDEO: Revaccination in Kaunas clinics
According to Šarūnas Mačinskas, the booster vaccination is organized in the same way as the first vaccination. “Medical personnel who were the first to be vaccinated are invited to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, after discovering if they have COVID-19 disease and other signs of acute upper respiratory infection,” explains S Mačinskas.
The Vilnius Santara BNS Clinic reported that on Sunday it will vaccinate the doctors who were vaccinated on December 27. Then it was announced that there were 745 of them.
VIDEO: The second dose of the Covid 19 vaccine began at the Santara clinics on January 17, 2021.
Hospitals that have received COVID-19 during that time will not be vaccinated by hospitals for now; they will be vaccinated later. There were seven such cases in the Kaunas clinics and 79 in the Santara clinics.
Workers may have been infected with coronavirus both before and after vaccination because a single dose of the vaccine still does not develop immunity against the disease.
As announced by the Health Ministry on Friday, Pfizer announced that 54,405 doses of the vaccine will be delivered instead of the planned 108,810 doses over the next four weeks.
Based on available data, Pfizer has temporarily reduced the supply of COVID-19 while reviewing its technology processes.
According to the ministry, a representative from BioNTech and Pfizer assures that the number of doses of vaccines that will be delivered later will increase. The manufacturer is committed to providing information on the exact number of vaccines that will be administered in the near future.
Vaccination priorities will not change and vaccination will continue as planned, only longer than planned.
According to the ministry, the expected delivery volumes are reduced for all countries of the European Union.
The total quantity of BioNTech and Pfizer vaccines ordered by Lithuania is 3.1 million. and will not change as a result of this temporary reduction in supply.
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