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Some individual municipalities have already started vaccinating teachers. According to the Ministry of Health, there are already about 1,200 people vaccinated and the systematic vaccination of teachers will begin within the deadlines established by the municipalities themselves.
“I understand that you plan to start in the next few days, at least next week. The question also arises of how many vaccines are available in Lithuania so that they do not stop after starting the process,” said Tomas Daukantas, head of the Ministry’s Legal Department. , at a press conference Thursday.
If a teacher refuses to be vaccinated, the educational institution must develop a communicable disease testing plan, according to which the teacher must be tested at least every 10 days. The tests must be free for teachers.
If the teacher disagrees with the test, according to T. Daukantas, this may be a legal precondition for the teacher’s removal from office. The employer, in accordance with the Law for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases of People and other laws, has the right not to pay you until the day you are tested for a communicable disease or to transfer you to another job in the same place of work.
However, exclusion will depend on the directors of educational institutions themselves, it is expected that such measures will not be necessary.
“If it is not vaccinated and the infectious disease test is not carried out, the manager has the obligation to eliminate it,” says T. Daukantas.
Prophylaxis is not performed in subjects who have been confirmed for coronavirus infection by real-time PCR or SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests, or who have been vaccinated according to a vaccination schedule in less than 90 days, and in subjects who have tested positive for serological antibodies in less than 60 days.
Children are expected to be able to return to class once most of the teachers have been vaccinated.
According to ŠMSM, there are currently more than 55 thousand people working. purely pedagogical staff. By order of the Minister of Health, the priority group for vaccination are teachers of preschool and preschool education, teachers of special schools. The vaccine should be available to anyone who has at least minimal contact with students, including support staff.
According to Aidas Aldakauskas, director of the Department of Educational Quality and Regional Policy of the Ministry, 30,000 should be enough to vaccinate everyone. vaccinations
Klaipeda City Municipality: We will not force teachers to get vaccinated
On Thursday, the Klaipėda City Municipality issued a notice announcing that both Covid-19 tests and vaccines are not mandatory for educators in the port city, in both cases the principle of voluntariness applies.
“It is not planned to vaccinate or test school personnel if they do not agree.
Vaccination and testing in Klaipeda, as well as throughout Lithuania, are organized in accordance with the decisions of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, the Head of State Emergency Operations at the state level. {…}
Educational institutions are providing lists of employees who want to be vaccinated. Some educators and other employees of educational institutions have already started vaccination this week, because if the planned vaccine is not used for the vaccination of pharmacists, the rest is intended for the next priority group, that is, employees of educational institutions. The new vaccine shipment should arrive in Klaipėda next week, then the vaccination of most of the educators who have expressed their desire to be vaccinated is planned, ”says the report distributed by the Klaipėda City Council.
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