AstraZeneca returns: while others prepare for the vaccine, others wait and harden

As soon as the Minister of Health Arūnas Dulkys gave permission to use AstraZeneca again, the polyclinic employees started calling the residents and asking if they would like this vaccine.

The Karoliniškės polyclinic in the capital will use AstraZeneca vaccines again on Monday. Those who want another manufacturer will have to queue.

“Yes, out of 10, 3 patients refuse to be vaccinated somewhere,” says general practitioner nurse Inesa Tupikovskienė.

“We will mark who rejects AstraZeneca, then we will call additionally and invite when we have other vaccines,” says Vaida Danielė, nurse manager at Karoliniškės Polyclinic.

Not only Vilnius residents call, polyclinic employees all over Lithuania register local residents. The first to agree will be vaccinated in Šiauliai in a few hours:

“I’m not afraid of those things.”

“I had no doubt what it would be like, that would be the vaccine and that’s it.”

“Each vaccine has its own. What a human body it does. I hope my body accepts it well ”.

“I was waiting for an invitation and everything was fine. No, it’s the same for me.”

The confusion about vaccine options is greater, but municipalities will have to accelerate vaccines because they may lose their vaccines. Previously, vaccine doses in Lithuania were divided according to population. However, not all municipalities are able to vaccinate their people quickly. The authorities have decided to take the immobile vaccines that are on the shelves of the municipalities with the worst results and pass them on to those who can vaccinate faster.

“If there is a backlog, the amount of vaccines will be reduced accordingly,” says Jurgita Grebenkovienė, chancellor of the Ministry of Health.

“Each municipality receives a certain proportion of the vaccine, and if some people are not successful, or do not persuade the public, or people do not want to be vaccinated or expect something, it is natural:

Municipalities do not want to give vaccines to others

Municipalities where the population is vaccinated more slowly than in the rest of Lithuania do not want to give their vaccines to others at all.

“No, we would be unhappy. There is such an easy panic about one of the vaccine manufacturers, we have them, not only them, but other vaccine manufacturers too, that is. Would we be happy if there was a redistribution? Probably no one would be satisfied, ”says Radviliškis District Acting Mayor Mindaugas Pauliukas.

“I would suggest reviewing the priorities further, because younger people are really willing to get vaccinated, and if the AstraZeneca vaccine allowed people to get vaccinated, I think there would be no problems and the vaccination procedures would be completed very quickly,” says Trakai. District Mayor Edita Rudelien District.

The Health Ministry is in a hurry to reassure the regions. It is said that municipalities will be able to travel faster through the lists of people: vaccinate the younger population if the older ones cannot be persuaded.

“The ministry allows vaccines to move consistently through a priority list down until a list of people is available within a week who agree to vaccinate. There will be really different situations when in a municipality the list of people will be filled into higher priority groups, but there will also be municipalities in which AstraZeneca will find those who want to be vaccinated in a much lower priority ”, says J. Grebenkovienė.

The ministry promises to supervise municipalities so they don’t overdo it. It is said that the regions will not be able to vaccinate only the young population.

The Seimas received news from the Ministry of Health. Parliamentarians will be vaccinated next week. Arūnas Dulkys wants members of the Seimas to use AstraZeneca and thus help repair the reputation of this vaccine.

“Of course I will agree, I will agree to vaccinate AstraZeneca, but it is not Sputnik,” said Seimas member Aistė Gedvilienė.

“I gave the answer that they will vaccinate me, and whatever the vaccine is, they will vaccinate me,” says Seimas Algirdas member Butkevičius.

“Politicians, if they ask the public to be vaccinated, are their example, and I will vaccinate AstraZeneca”, says the member of the Seimas, Tomás Tomilinas.

“Dainius Kepenis will definitely not be vaccinated. He will keep the Nery, at sea, submerged in the Nery, and will participate in the voting with the computer,” says Remigijus Žemaitaitis, a member of the Seimas.

“They do not know that there is a natural immunity, they do not move, they eat anything, they drink alcohol, they smoke, they are angry, tense and, of course, vaccines can help them,” said Dainius Kepenis, a member of the Seimas.

All the top leaders of the country will be vaccinated

All the country’s leaders, the president of the Seimas, the prime minister with the cabinet and the president also promise to be vaccinated next Monday.

“In the current situation, when trust in AstraZeneca has prevailed, show leadership in sourcing this vaccine,” says Seimas President Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen.

Next week, the government will not only get vaccinated, but will also decide what to do with the quarantine still in effect in Lithuania. To control the spread of more rapidly spreading coronavirus mutations, the closure of local quarantine regions is being considered. Currently, one in five infected infections in Lithuania has a “British” origin. Most mutations in Vilnius and Marijampolė counties.