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According to her, the main condition for such a document proving immunity against COVID-19 is that vaccination “should have progressed fast enough” to be “a certain incentive for the person to choose to be vaccinated.”
“Now, I have no doubt, there are many people who would have chosen to be vaccinated and would have been vaccinated if there were enough vaccines to vaccinate them. At the moment, the state cannot guarantee this and neither should it promise such great privileges, “the prime minister said at a press conference on Tuesday.
He also hinted that further advancement in vaccines is expected in the second quarter of the year.
“(You can expect a breakthrough: BNS) in the second quarter, when larger shipments of Pfizer vaccines should be available,” he said.
President Simonas Krėpšta’s adviser stated on Tuesday that by the end of March, that is, in the first quarter, a total of about 600,000 people should arrive in Lithuania. COVID-19 vaccine doses and another 3 million in the second quarter. vaccines.
According to Šimonytė, the European Council discussed the issue of the “green passport” last week “only at the level of principles”, and the details of its technical implementation have yet to be agreed. The Prime Minister also reiterates that such an immunity document could be used more to travel between states, but is wary of possible facilities within the country.
“There are more things to do with specific privileges or with a specific ability than for those citizens who do not have this passport. I really could not link that idea now,” he emphasized.
After last week’s virtual EU summit on the subject, von der Leyen said that vaccination certificates could only be drawn up within three months and that the system would have to comply with data protection rules.
It is considered that it must be a digital or physical document that proves that its sender has been vaccinated and therefore can visit leisure, sports or restaurant facilities.
President Gitanas Nausėda supports the idea of a “green passport” and says that Lithuania will strive to include not only vaccinated people but also sick people. His adviser, Simon Krėpšta, argued that the measure could also be useful in deciding on larger waivers at the national level.
Some countries, which depend mainly on tourism, are calling for the introduction of a measure as soon as possible that would free up travel without isolation. However, most EU countries believe that such a move would be premature and, in the absence of an adequate supply of vaccines, would create a two-tier society in which some people would have more freedom than others.
