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The mayor of the capital, Remigijus Šimašius, is asking the Ministry of Health (SAM) to allow more free use of COVID-19 vaccine residues, so that it is not necessary to discard doses.
“Informal talks have already taken place, and today the mayor of Vilnius has officially asked SAM to allow the vaccines left at the end of the day to be used more freely by registrants, thus avoiding losses,” said Karolis Vaitkevičius, spokesperson for the mayor told BNS on Tuesday.
According to municipal data, 72 doses of more than 81,000 vaccines had to be used in the capital.
The Kaunas city municipality has lost a total of 41 doses out of 82,000, mostly Moderna vaccine.
“We lost ten doses because a bottle of AstraZeneca arrived broken at the vaccination center. Another 31 vaccines had to be used in the first weeks of vaccination, including 28 doses of Moderna and three doses of AstraZeneca, ”said Daiva Kuzminienė, Head of the Kaunas Municipality Health Department.
“Currently, we have established processes to ensure the proper use of all vaccines, so we do not suffer further losses,” he said.
At that time, two doses of Moderna vaccine were to be used in one of the two vaccination centers in Klaipėda, and four doses in Šiauliai, representatives of these municipalities informed BNS.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said Tuesday that she still does not see the need to change the vaccination procedure.
“If this really becomes a problem on a large scale, then of course the legislation will need to be changed,” I. Šimonyt report told reporters on Tuesday.
He recalled the example of Israel and other countries, where people are invited to a live queue at the end of the day without using all the vaccines.
SAM recommends that vaccination centers use Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in the first half of the day for six hours after opening and AstraZeneca in the second half of the day for 48 hours after opening.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, 330.8 thousand patients were vaccinated with the first dose in Lithuania. people, both doses – 152.9 thousand.
Lithuania has received more than 554.7 thousand so far. vaccines, of which more than 483.7 thousand were used.
Author Ramūnas Jakubauskas
