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“It seems to me that setting such specific goals for myself and not meeting them later is not what I would like to do,” the prime minister told LRT radio on Tuesday.
President Gitan Nauseda on Monday called on the state to go beyond its previous ambitions and vaccinate nine out of ten people.
Scientists recommend this higher limit than previously proposed, arguing in favor of the spreading properties of the delta strain of coronavirus.
“When I don’t argue with the president, the more vaccinated our society is, the better for us,” said I. Šimonytė.
However, he stressed that “life tends to adjust those ambitions quite strongly.”
The prime minister said a larger vaccinated population would ease restrictions on COVID-19.
The president’s adviser, Irena Segalovičienė, told Knowledge Radio on Tuesday that she would achieve the goal of vaccinating 90 percent. population is possible because only a tenth of the population is determined not to be vaccinated.
The other part of those who have not been vaccinated so far, he said, could be counted again.
“Some are those who could be the help of family doctors, a kind of educational campaign, their opinion is changed,” said the counselor.
According to her, the Government should pay special attention to vulnerable groups – the elderly and people with other diseases – continuing to vaccinate the population.
“Here the population over 80 years old is definitely not sufficiently vaccinated and it is to these groups that we must return, the vaccination policy is reviewed in order of priority. Reach 90 percent. these groups must remain a priority, ”said I. Segalovičienė.
According to the Department of Statistics, the proportion of adults vaccinated with at least one dose in the country is almost 70 percent.
The third vaccine is coming soon
The prime minister announced on Tuesday that the country’s population should be vaccinated with a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the coming weeks.
“It should start in the next few weeks,” the prime minister told LRT Radio.
According to her, the third dose will be vaccinated six months after the second.
I. Šimonytė said that the recommendation for vaccination with the third dose was adopted by the Council of Experts meeting on Monday, which evaluated the totality of the antibody tests in the public groups that were the first to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Lithuania. .
According to her, the vaccination procedure with the third dose will be provided by Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys on his order.
In Lithuania, a small group of immunosuppressed patients have been vaccinated with the third dose of the vaccine since the beginning of August. These are people with oncohematological diseases, on dialysis or after organ transplants, with autoimmune diseases when receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
