One of the most “black” municipalities in Lithuania: what happened for Marijampolė to become the second largest outbreak of COVID-19 and British mutation?

According to data from March 30, during the last 14 days, 328.9 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Lithuania per 100,000 inhabitants.

In the municipality of Širvintos district, where the situation is the worst in the country, the number of new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants in two weeks reached 1020. The proportion of positive tests in the last 7 days was 8.3.

In the municipality of Marijampolė, 692 new cases were registered for every 100,000 inhabitants in two weeks, the proportion of positive tests for coronavirus in the last 7 days was 12.9.

Furthermore, the British strain of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly here.

The third municipality where the epidemiological situation is currently worst is the Šalčininkai district. There were 661 new cases of coronavirus for every two thousand inhabitants in two weeks. The proportion of positives is 25.4.

1200 doses of vaccine accumulated

According to P.Isoda, there are many producing companies in the municipality of Marijampolė, which also had the main COVID-19 chimneys.

“There the work is done directly, it cannot be done remotely, hundreds or even thousands of people work in production in some companies. As a result, that virus spreads. Apparently, it is normal for one or another person to get sick somewhere and move to companies. We have been looking all the time that the main chimneys are our producers, ”said the mayor.

Another outbreak broke out in the Marijampolė Correctional Center.

The municipality of Marijampolė also looks poor due to the recorded cases of British coronavirus mutation.

According to P.Isoda, in addition to Kalvarija, Marijampolė is the municipality crossed by a huge flow of traffic.

There are many businesses involved in transportation: car sales, transportation.

Its employees regularly go to Western Europe, return to Marijampolė and there, of course, they go to shops and other places where it is allowed. Isoda said that this may be one of the reasons for the spread of the British variety.

“And what are we doing? We vaccinate it en masse. We have asked the ministry before, and with our permission, we vaccinated about 2,000 people last week,” said the mayor of the Marijampolė municipality.

Isoda explained that about 1,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines had been stored in the municipality a couple of weeks ago because the elders refused to vaccinate her.

“You don’t trust that vaccine and you don’t get vaccinated,” he said.

Don’t trust that vaccine and don’t get vaccinated.

Request of companies for the elaboration of lists

With the permission of the Ministry of Health, other priority groups have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca vaccines in the municipality: educators, police, firefighters and prison staff.

According to P. Isoda, the rest of the vaccines barely disappeared from sight.

“We keep saying the same thing: we need more, more mass vaccinations. We increase testing only from time to time. A mobile team has been created that you will test in companies. The decision was signed last week. We already have that team and now we will also test in companies.

Test volumes have increased, now the main thing remains to be vaccinated. We need more other types of vaccines to be able to finish vaccinating older people, ”said Isoda.

AstraZeneca vaccines, as expected by the mayor of the municipality of Marijampolė, will continue to allow the vaccination of population groups below the priority queue.

Among them: graduates, merchants, employees of food processing companies that employ many people: Mantinga, ICECO, Marijampolė canned milk, employees.

“We have already set ourselves the task of preparing in advance lists of people in the company who would agree to be vaccinated if the AstraZeneca vaccine were allowed to vaccinate. This is also the whole society: it is necessary to be vaccinated “, pointed out P. Isoda.

It is important not to be limited

Although vaccination with AstraZeneca has been stopped in Lithuania and some other European Union countries, which explains the risk of a possible thrombosis, the European Medicines Agency has declared it safe, the vaccination has been renewed and continues in our country and in other places.

However, Isoda noted that on Tuesday, the German capital Berlin announced that it would stop vaccinating people under the age of 60 with a vaccine developed by a UK pharmaceutical company in conjunction with the University of Oxford.

“The German capital suspends vaccination, so no expert or scientist seems more convincing to a statistician. Apparently there is a problem here. But the main thing we really felt when we started vaccinating people below priority groups last week was that people really did get vaccinated en masse: Educators and officials alike, and seniors, as well as each other, have already emerged.

That vaccine should be allowed to get vaccinated, most importantly so that it doesn’t accumulate anywhere. And whether or not you are vaccinating a higher or lower priority, it is important that it is consumed as soon as possible and that those amounts do not remain. You’re going to vaccinate a neighbor, you’re going to vaccinate something more familiar and that’s how the movement is going to turn and that’s what the AstraZeneca drives, and there really is something to vaccinate. Here there will be no problem. It is important not to be constrained and not be like a week or two ago, that only the elderly and everything else is not possible until you vaccinate them ”, emphasized P. Isoda.

You’re going to vaccinate a neighbor, you’re going to vaccinate something more familiar and that’s how the movement is going to turn and that’s what the AstraZeneca drives, and there really is something to vaccinate.

When there are vaccinations, they are also given in Marijampol on Saturdays. Let’s say the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, Moderna, according to Isoda, are also vaccinated on weekdays.

He himself also said that he had been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine last Saturday.

The mayor of the municipality of Marijampol que said he felt the symptoms of a cold: his temperature had risen and he had chills.

But on Monday, things were already good and he went to work.