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“With the acceleration and intensification of the vaccination process, as well as to increase the scope of testing, increase preventive testing, there is a lack of human resources.
We have drafted legislative changes <...>. It is complemented by legal acts that would give students the right to perform vaccine injections under the supervision of general practice nurses, and would also provide an opportunity for advanced practice pharmacists to perform vaccines in pharmacies, ”said J. Grebenkovienė during the Seimas session. Health Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
The vaccination process, which involves these individuals, is being prepared, according to the minister’s chancellor.
“Both communities are aware that this change is planned. “They are being contacted about preparations for both pharmacies and universities so that we can complement these processes with these human resources,” he said.
Fully vaccinated 6 percent. country population
According to J.Grebenkovienė, after vaccination also starts on weekends, this practice will continue.
Speaking about the level of immunization of the population, the chancellor said about 6 percent. the country’s population is fully vaccinated, more than 6 percent. received a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and more than 7% have contracted the disease and have antibodies.
“The health sector, along with pharmacies, is doing very well [imunizacijos] percent. Consequently, we have the result that we no longer have outbreaks and serious diseases in health institutions, ”said J. Grebenkovienė.
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According to the chancellor, Lithuania has reserved about 10 million. eight doses of COVID-19 vaccine from different manufacturers, most from Pfizer-BioNTech.
AstraZeneca consumption is believed to be improving
The consumption of this vaccine, according to her, is very good, it is a demanding vaccine.
“We have great results in all municipalities, we have very small balances at the end of the week. Yes, at the end of last week, we had 4,000. “Pfizer vaccine residue,” said J. Grebenkovienė.
The manufacturer’s “Moderna” vaccine is also in demand and its consumption in the municipalities is also good: at the end of last week, 1.7 thousand. vaccine dose.
The least requested is the manufacturer’s AstraZeneca vaccine.
“We have the rest of this vaccine. We finished the week with 19,000. [vakcinų likučiu]”Said the Chancellor.
We have a carryover of this vaccine all the time. We finished the week with 19 thousand. [vakcinų likučiu].
Although the popularity of this vaccine has increased due to the change in procedure and by allowing more freedom to switch to vaccinating other priority groups, according to J. Grebenkovienė.
“We have recovered from the previous weeks and again we reached more than 5,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca per day. People,” he noted.
Since the start of vaccination, people have reported 1,612 suspected adverse reactions, the ministry’s chancellor said. That, according to her, is 11.37 percent. of the total number of vaccines and it is said to be a good number, nothing unique compared to other foreign countries.
Vaccination and private institutions
Vaccination, according to the Chancellor, is provided by six cluster hospitals that have vaccinated high-risk patients, medical personnel, 85 vaccination centers that organize vaccination in municipalities, as well as more than 325 vaccination institutions, 90 of which are private.
J.Grebenkovienė listed groups of people who, according to her, have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
These include high-risk patients, medical staff, fever clinic and laboratory staff, patients and staff in nursing and supportive care facilities, nursing home residents and staff, social workers, pharmacists, mission participants, Olympians. , preschool, preschool. and primary school teachers, the country’s top leaders.
“We return to these groups regularly every week because we have people who are changing their minds and going back to the vaccination process and asking to be vaccinated. The party also acquires the right [pasiskiepyti] We have vaccinated these groups after getting sick, in recovery and constantly, “said the Chancellor of the Ministry.
Vaccination of members of the Seimas and the Government, mayors and administrative directors, vaccination of cancer patients and with the immunodeficiency virus, people 65 years of age or older, remaining employees of the educational sector, students who work in health institutions and pharmacies and graduates . also currently in progress.
Bad message about growing morbidity
The situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania was briefly discussed by Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys.
According to data published by the Department of Statistics on Wednesday, the incidence of COVID-19 in 14 days per 100,000. population is 328.9.
According to the minister, this number will grow and, according to him, it is bad.
“It looks like we are moving towards 400-500 cases in 14 days and that is a bad message,” Dulkys said.
He also hinted that the serious results of the COVID-19 genome sequencing studies are not yet available and that the studies are too short.
But it is clear that the British strain of the virus is spreading rapidly in various regions of the country.
“We have been involved in regular and systematic sequencing for only a good month and a half, we still do not have much analytical and valuable knowledge, but we know that the Marijampolė and Vilnius regions are already dominated by the British variety with its different speed and consequences. said A. Dulkys.
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