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According to the President of the Association of Municipalities, the Mayor of Jonava, Mindaugas Sinkevičius, vaccination centers in most municipalities should be open on weekends.
“He is planning a weekend to work who I am talking to. Some both on Saturday and Sunday, others count, as maybe just Saturday is enough. No problem working on the weekend. I have not heard of none of them not planning, “M. Sinkevičius told BNS.
Vaccination centers in three major cities in Lithuania also plan to work this weekend. Teachers will be vaccinated in Vilnius and Kaunas, and a live queue of priority groups is planned for people who agree to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca in Klaipeda.
The representative of the mayor of the capital, Karolis Vaitkevičius, told BNS that the vaccination will take place in the municipal building of the capital, where teachers will be vaccinated.
“Vaccination will take place in the Vilnius city municipality on Saturday, we will invite teachers according to priority. Until now, we are planning (vaccinating – BNS) on Saturday, then we will see the number of vaccines, ”he said.
Paulius Kibiša, director of the Kaunas Polyclinic, stated that it is also planned to vaccinate students and teachers at the city’s vaccination center according to the list of priorities modified over the weekend.
The Klaipėda Municipality previously announced a weekend to organize a live queue and allow the AstraZeneca vaccine to be vaccinated for all residents aged 65 and over.
Some still don’t see the need
The municipality of Alytus, in turn, reported that the available doses of the vaccine are used in full on weekdays, so no vaccine will yet be administered on the weekend.
“Based on the amounts of vaccine received per week, we vaccinate. This is the schedule. We are not planning yet, unless shipments increase,” Jurgita Šukevičienė, deputy mayor of Alytus, told BNS.
In Jonava, vaccination is scheduled to take place only on Saturday.
“It is not clear on Sunday. But not for lack of labor. (…) The weekly delivery used to be from the distribution centers until arriving on Monday night. To not allow workers to work on Sunday and stay with zero on Monday, we probably won’t imitate Sunday’s work, ”explained M. Sinkevičius.
Zdzislav Palevičius, mayor of the Šalčininkai district, said that the accumulated stocks of the AstraZeneca vaccine are gradually decreasing. According to him, on Saturday it is planned to vaccinate the population according to the established list, and on Sunday, to invite people over 65 to the live queue.
“People will be able to come on Sunday. We will try to make that queue,” he said.
With the storage of unused vaccines, the Ministry of Health has recommended that municipalities vaccinate people also on weekends this week.
To date, vaccination volumes have typically been several hundred or dozen injections on Saturdays and Sundays.
According to Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, vaccination on weekends will become a universal necessity in all municipalities after Easter, when Lithuania will start receiving larger amounts of vaccine.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, a total of more than 503 thousand tons of goods were brought to Lithuania. doses of vaccine, of which, according to Friday, 454.3 thousand were used.
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