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Older residents, teachers, high school graduates, and representatives from sports schools have been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. Representatives of the institutions that carried out vaccinations in the largest cities of the country point out that the most active population was in the morning.
According to Kęstutis Štaras, director of the Central Polyclinic, which carries out vaccination in the municipal building in the capital, a total of 377 people were vaccinated in Vilnius on Saturday, including 48 teachers and 48 representatives from sports schools. 86 registered residents did not show up, 14 of them were coaches from the Vilnius Basketball School.
“Active residents arrived in the morning and were searched. There was even a huge queue, they wanted to catch up at the wrong time for them, probably because the weather was so good, maybe going to nature or somewhere else. About half of the first was a single queue, the process went well, but 86 residents who had registered did not come, some did not even cancel, which complicated the process, ”K. Štaras told BNS.
At that time, the director of the Kaunas Polyclinic, Paulius Kibiša, stated that the vaccination went smoothly, 1095 teachers and graduates were vaccinated at the city’s vaccination center on Saturday.
“There were some who did not come, but not a dramatic number. The vaccination went smoothly, in good faith, there were no incidents. If we had had more vaccines, we would have vaccinated more, but we worked until 2 pm, because we had so many vaccines, ”Bibis told BNS.
68 older residents arrived in Klaipeda on Saturday to get vaccinated. A lively queue was organized in the city, and all residents 65 and older were able to get vaccinated.
“In the morning there was a greater arrival of people to get vaccinated, then they came one at a time. (…) We expected more, but it is also very good that it has arrived, ”said Saulius Dabravalskis, Chief Medical Officer of the Mariners Health Center.
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 Saturday, 471.1 thousand were used.
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