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The capital municipality intends to vaccinate the neighbors during the long weekend. The AstraZeneca vaccine will be used primarily for this purpose.
As Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius said on Thursday, some 12,000 people will be vaccinated during the three holidays. people in priority groups. You are invited to register online.
“Since we get vaccinated it is natural that they do not have to lie down, that volume should be, there is nothing to wait,” said the head of the capital.
Some municipalities vaccinate only on Saturdays
Paulius Kibiša, director of the Kaunas Polyclinic, told BNS that the vaccination is scheduled for only one weekend day, on Saturday.
We will work at full capacity on Saturday, we will not vaccinate on Sunday, Monday, because during this and next week we will vaccinate a total of 30 thousand. people, ”he said.
According to the head of the polyclinic, it is planned to vaccinate about 4 thousand people on Saturday. persons. As in the capital, residents will be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The mayor of Marijampolė, Povilas Isoda, says there is no point in working during Holy Week: people ask to be vaccinated afterwards.
“We will work on Saturday. We saw in this way that it does not make sense to work at Easter, because, as we have noticed according to the registry and the lists, people ask after the holidays, they do not want to go to vaccinate through them, so that he doesn’t want to stand idly by, ”Mr. Isoda told BNS.
“Next week will be intense, it will be better to give the workers a break,” he added.
The mayor claims that there is no capacity to work seven days a week, but Marijampol especialistas specialists are able to use the vaccines in six days.
“There is no such capacity to work a whole week (…) It does not make sense to work seven days a week until there is a mass vaccination, because the amounts of vaccine we receive are not from AstraZeneca, they are vaccinated without problems these days ., and we worked mostly with AstraZeneca on Saturday, “said the head of Marijampolė.
Vaccination is not planned because there are no willing people
The mayor of Šiauliai, Artūras Visockas, told BNS that the vaccination is not scheduled for three days, but there is a possibility that the vaccination centers will be open on Saturday, if not all will be vaccinated on Friday.
“There are homosexual traditions in Šiauliai, and here we are talking about a very strong religious holiday, so if we did that work, it would become an object of ridicule, because this work would simply fail, it would be a meaningless job of doctors for work that does It happens. In other words, we don’t want to imitate work and apply coercive mechanisms at a time when there is no need to do so, “said A. Visockas.
“If ever there was a great desire of people to get vaccinated, and there is not, people themselves do not register before the holidays, (…) and if we could not vaccinate all the people on Friday, then on Saturday we would still work a few hours, ”he said.
According to him, vaccines are used effectively in Šiauliai also on weekdays and doctors have the right to rest.
“It just came to our knowledge then. I would like to emphasize the issue of efficiency and respect for doctors, because doctors also have the right to rest, which is usually on Saturdays and Sundays,” said A. Visockas.
He also assured that Šiauliai will not lag behind other cities in vaccination rates, which will be vaccinated next weekend.
The Mazeikiai district does not intend to vaccinate over the weekend. As Deputy Mayor Sigutė Bernotienė told BNS, the currently available vaccine doses are scheduled to be used on Friday.
And although that day the municipality should reach about 1.2 thousand more. There is no dose of AstraZeneca, but almost no people want to get vaccinated with this vaccine.
“We only have 18 people who want and whom we can vaccinate according to priorities. We don’t know if that AstraZeneca will arrive on Friday afternoon. (…) These celebrations are visible to everyone ”, said S. Bernotienė.
She said she was sure there would be more interest in vaccines after Easter. Additionally, AstraZeneca is considering vaccinating people in the lowest priority groups next week, all those under 65 who wish to do so.
“We hope that now the people who have been in the local bubbles will regain their strength and a completely different emotion will come,” said the deputy mayor of the Mažeikiai district.
On Thursday, the Mayor of Jonava, the Mayor of Jonava, Mindaugas Sinkevičius, asked Lithuanian municipalities to get vaccinated during the Easter holiday weekend, if only vaccines are available.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, Lithuania has received 642 thousand. 365 doses of vaccine, 577 thousand. 565 were delivered to vaccination centers, of which 515 thousand were used. 287.
