By looking for the vaccine they want, people become vaccine migrants; they also travel to another city.

The first day, when the Litexpo exhibition hall in the capital can be vaccinated at age 45, there was a queue before the opening of the vaccination center.

A Vilnius resident, who had to stand at the end of the waiting line, said there was no order; in Karoliniškės, according to her, everything was much better organized.

Some came to get vaccinated half an hour earlier. But everyone lined up, regardless of who got vaccinated.

Tensions over vaccines have been on the rise since Monday, when registration of people over 45 began.

One woman said that she and her parents had signed up for the vaccine and, due to technical interruptions, were able to do so within 3 hours.

It turns out that not a single person got tired of the computer before they could register.

“We kept trying to check in for about an hour and a half. And the system was still breaking at some point,” said one woman.

Another said the vaccine was recorded 3 or 4 times.

“The system did not give much, it was a vaccine, it was not, there was interference,” said the woman.

This fight for registration for vaccination in Vilnius arose because it was possible to choose a vaccine from the manufacturers of Pfizer-BioNTech. As of Tuesday, although there are about 20,000 vaccines available in the capital, fewer than 3,000 have registered to be vaccinated. And because of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, people in other cities said they didn’t want to visit.

Is it really possible to get vaccinated to register anywhere? LNK journalists tried to register a Vilnius resident with a vaccine in Kaunas, she managed to do so. The system also easily registered a resident of the Švenčionys district in Vilnius.

According to the Ministry of Health, registration in another municipality is not prohibited.

“We are not really promoting vaccine tourism, as has been said here in the public sphere. We do not encourage people to try to go to another municipality to get vaccinated, to find a vaccine that is more acceptable to them. But life is life, ”said Birutė Kavaliauskienė, SAM advisor.

So far, a minority of those vaccine migrants. Almost 10 percent of non-residents in Vilnius were vaccinated in Vilnius. By the way, if you want the vaccination process to be faster, the vaccination center staff will ask you to bring an identity card, if you have one. It is enough to scan it and the passport data has to be entered into the computer manually.