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On Tuesday morning, President Simonas Krėpšta’s adviser declared that in the first quarter Lithuania should reach a total of 600 thousand. vaccines.
BNS recalls that, according to data from the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, Lithuania has received 279.9 thousand so far. vaccine doses, which means that Lithuania should receive more than 320 thousand. doses, that is, more than in January and February combined.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė was laconic about when we can expect a vaccine supply disruption: “In the second quarter, when larger shipments of the Pfizer vaccine are due.
There is a long way to go with a ‘green passport’
The European Commission promises to propose to member states within a month a so-called “green passport” for people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
We shouldn’t talk about the immunity passport as something that would hit us in the next few weeks.
“We should not talk about the immunity passport as something that will happen to us in the next few weeks. The European Council has only discussed this issue in principle. Without a doubt, its technical implementation will require a lot of work. “It will be very difficult to say how much need there will be to use this type of posters, if a person is vaccinated, suffers from some internal things, and not from movements between different countries, at a time when this idea can be implemented,” said the First Minister.
I. Šimonytė added that he could not link this idea with privileges and the ability to do more than other citizens who do not have a passport.
The “green passport”, according to her, should be an incentive for a person to choose to be vaccinated, but so far the state cannot guarantee that everyone who wants to be vaccinated does not have to promise privileges.
For blended learning, solutions are coming soon
Asked on Tuesday when we can expect more schools where teaching is done in a mixed way, as in the Duke Gediminas Progymnasium in the capital, I. Šimonytė said that this will be the case when the needs for the massive development of this project are assessed.
“Applying a project of this type en masse requires many hands and it is necessary to discover who will have those hands and to be able to test schools in that way,” he emphasized.
How to extend the tests, according to the prime minister, will be decided soon.
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