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During the Seimas Health Session on Friday, he stated that according to the latest data from the European Commission, the European Medical Agency Pfizer and BioNTech should approve the vaccine on December 21, it will be shipped to EU countries at Christmas and will arrive in countries on December 26 or 27 days.
“Consequently, we will be able to start the vaccination process, probably on December 27, in the worst case, on December 28. That is the most recent information,” said the deputy minister during the session of the Health Affairs Committee of the Seimas on Friday.
According to her, the information on the planned amounts of coronavirus vaccine to be delivered to Lithuania is constantly changing, so the European Commission requests not to publish the exact number of the first doses.
Consequently, we will be able to start the vaccination process, probably on December 27, in the worst case, the 28, says Ž.Simonaitytė.
“The information on the amounts is a bit volatile at the moment, so I wouldn’t want to say the final ones either. More so, and we have received instructions from the European Commission not to disclose the amounts,” he said.
The Minister of Health, Arūnas Dulkys, for his part, said that the data on the amount of vaccine that arrives per day had changed five times a day. He acknowledges that the first vaccines may not be enough even for doctors and promises that the first doses will be administered directly to patients working with COVID-19.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Apparently, there will be supplies in small parts, but often. But even those first quantities, the first shipment may not be enough even for the medical community, but it may be enough during January,” said A Dulkys.
He acknowledged that so far only primary vaccination has been prepared, and that the communication plan to persuade vaccine skeptics “the job is not done and the new team will have to shake hands very hard.”
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