Companies are getting vaccinated little by little, most are still waiting

The Ministry of Health announced last week that companies and organizations with at least one hundred employees are invited to be vaccinated. They are vaccinated if there are vaccines left after the priority groups to be vaccinated that week. In addition, priority is given to companies with outbreaks of the virus.

Vidmantas Janulevičius, president of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, told BNS that there is a shortage of vaccines in companies large and small, and that the Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda regions cannot boast of speed.

“In the food sector, the process continues, everything is fine, the vaccination started a month ago and today it is already close to 80%. “We only have a slightly worse situation for fishermen working in direct feed, on conveyors, packing lines and in meat processing plants, but vaccination is taking place there, and in regards to other larger industries. We can’t be happy about that, “BNS said. V. Janulevičius.

The situation in companies is different

Rokiškio sūris, one of the largest milk processing companies, has already vaccinated 350 of the 860 people. According to the head of the company Dalius Trumpas, vaccination is going smoothly, all those who wanted the Astra Zeneca vaccine have been vaccinated.

“The procedure is going well, good communication with the responsible vaccination institution in Rokiškis district. But that kindness comes from two parts: the district authorities look kindly, but we also contribute a lot of our work, administrative resources. We queue ourselves, we say when a person will come, at a specific time. We are doing the work that the company’s primary health care institution should do and we only provide a list, ”D. Trump told BNS.

According to him, the company does not apply exceptional conditions to vaccinated employees, but allows them to be vaccinated during work and not come to work the next day if they feel bad.

At that time, vaccination in the Lithuanian Railways group is just beginning, from about 9 thousand. So far about 100 employees have been vaccinated. Rolandas Šlepetys, the company’s director of safety and risk management, told BNS that there are more people who want to get vaccinated, but not everyone has had the opportunity yet, some have rejected the Astra Zeneca vaccine.

“We have data for those who want it, it varies in several ways: about 5% of administrative employees work somewhere. I just don’t want to be vaccinated, but if somewhere in production, road workers, ordinary professions, it is about 55 percent want to get vaccinated, “said R. Šlepetys.

According to him, the company is not very active in promoting vaccination, but the employees were interviewed and their lists were given to the municipalities. They inform the staff, then they go to get vaccinated. R. Šlepetys did not rule out the possibility that, for example, in Vilnius, people could be vaccinated in a company.

According to him, some activities in the company are sensitive and cannot be interrupted, so if employees refused to vaccinate, periodic tests could be applied.

“There are traffic controllers – as air traffic controllers, they handle all the traffic, they work in eight rooms in one room. For us it is important that there are no viruses, that they have been vaccinated, then we appeal to that awareness, we speak, and yes someone refuses to vaccinate, we can apply tests, but we cannot force it, ”said R. Šlepetys.

At that time, employees working in various cities for Vičiūnai Group, a producer of crab sticks and other surimi and fish products, began vaccinating last week. According to the company representative, Mindaugas Snicorius, the majority expressed their desire to be vaccinated.

“As far as we know, the vaccination process in Kaunas and Plungė, the cities where most of our employees work, went smoothly and most of those who wanted to have already received the first vaccine,” said M. Snicorius, Manager of Vičiūnai Group Communications. .

In the Klaipėda Free Economic Zone (FEZ), 400 company employees were vaccinated with Astra Zeneca on Saturday. The management company Klaipėda FEZ took advantage of the opportunity provided by the city municipality to vaccinate large groups. Vaccination was carried out in the FEZ territory.

“It was a shocking residual distribution from Astra Zeneca, we had to deliver lists of people who wanted to be vaccinated within 24 hours, they came to us in the area and the employees of the companies were vaccinated according to the indicated time. We are all looking forward to it, maybe there is still that opportunity, maybe there are still leftovers, ”said Indrė Dudonienė, communication manager at Klaipėda FEZ.

Last Saturday, the companies Retal Baltic Films, Orion Global PET, Vėjo projektai, Fortum Klaipėda, Albright Lietuva, Lavango Engineering LT, Glassbel Baltic, Baltijos transporto sistemos, Lindstrom, Vingės logistika, Mestilla and other employees.