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“That goal is ambitious, but it is raised by both the European Union and other European Union countries, the European Commission. And the president really believes that it is really possible to achieve that goal during the summer, because we see that the amount of vaccines that we receive it will be enough to achieve that goal, “the president’s adviser told LRT radio on Thursday.
“If we don’t achieve that goal, there will already be national challenges here: the impossibility of using those vaccines, inviting people, convincing them, and that would undoubtedly be a great disadvantage for our social and economic life,” he said. aggregate.
Although mass vaccination of the population is currently planned for June, S. Krėpšta pointed out that a large part of the country’s population should be vaccinated only by vaccinating priority groups.
“Looking at the list of priorities currently approved by the Ministry of Health – I did not calculate exactly, but you can suspect that after going through all those priorities – people with chronic diseases, elderly people, teachers, police, military – this will probably be half from Lithuania. And if we say that we will switch to mass vaccination only when half of Lithuania has been vaccinated, then maybe it will be June, “said the president’s adviser.
According to their data, Lithuania should reach more than 2 million in the second quarter of this year. vaccine dose.
“At the end of the second trimester, if we can use all the vaccines, we will be very close to that goal and we will reach 70%. For adults vaccinated during the summer it is an ambitious goal but certainly achievable,” he emphasized.
According to data from the Statistics Department this Thursday, at least one dose of 349.6 thousand vaccines was vaccinated in the country. people, both doses – 165,7 thousand.
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