Vaccination of employees of educational institutions begins in Vilnius



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At this stage, employees of educational institutions who work in educational institutions and other educational institutions and who have direct contact (permanent or temporary) with students educated in preschool, preschool and primary education programs will be vaccinated. The priority group also includes teachers who work in special schools or special classes in general education schools who have contact with young students.

Photo by Saulius Žiūra / Coronavirus Vaccine

Photo by Saulius Žiūra / Coronavirus Vaccine

Those who work in vocational training institutions and have direct contact (permanent or temporary) with professional training programs and social skills for students with special educational needs, municipal health specialists from municipal public health offices that provide medical care, will also be vaccinated. in the schools.

Starting Tuesday, these employees of the capital’s education sector will be vaccinated at the Antakalnis, Center, Karoliniškės and Šeškinė polyclinics, as well as, depending on the number of people to be vaccinated, vaccinations will be carried out at educational institutions for convenience.

Photo by Saulius Žiūra / Coronavirus Vaccine

Photo by Saulius Žiūra / Coronavirus Vaccine

Employees of educational institutions will receive an invitation to vaccinate by means of a short SMS message, which will indicate in which medical institution the vaccination will take place and the time of vaccination.

Educational personnel under the age of 55 will be vaccinated with AstraZeneca, others will be vaccinated with Pfizer & Biontech.

Photo by Saulius Žiūra / Coronavirus Vaccine

Photo by Saulius Žiūra / Coronavirus Vaccine

About 30 percent. Employees in educational institutions will not be vaccinated, at least for now – vaccination against COVID-19 in the past 90 days with a positive serological antibody test in the past 60 days will be postponed to the next stage. Among the educators are those who refused to be vaccinated.

Once the vaccination of teachers has started, the vaccination of the previous priority groups will continue – vaccination of employees of personal health institutions, pharmacists who subsequently registered. However, it is expected that there will not be many such people.

This week, Vilnius will receive a total of 5,890 doses of vaccine, of which 2,200 will be AstraZeneca and 3,690 doses of the Pfizer & Biontech vaccine.

According to data from the Department of Statistics, 13,817 people were vaccinated once in Vilnius and 8,270 people were vaccinated twice.



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