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“Late in the evening, we received information from a Pfizer representative that the next four deliveries to the entire European Union will be cut in half. (…) The reasons given for the representation are a technology review of processes to speed up production at a later stage, with the construction of additional plants and an additional 3 million euros from the European Commission asking for doses, which was done a week ago, ”said Živilė Simonaitytė during the session of the Committee on Seimas health on Friday.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, Pfizer announced that in the next four weeks, no more than 108 thousand. 810 doses of vaccine and 54 thousand. 405.
Currently, specialists are calculating the necessary amounts of vaccine for the second dose of those who have already been vaccinated.
“We will make sure that the vaccine is sufficient to vaccinate people with the second dose of the vaccine,” the ministry told the BNS.
Vaccination priorities will not change and vaccination will continue as planned, only for longer than planned.
According to the ministry, a representative from BioNTech and Pfizer assures that the number of doses of vaccines that will be delivered later will increase. The manufacturer promises to provide information on the exact number of vaccines to be administered in the near future.
The total quantity of BioNTech and Pfizer vaccines ordered by Lithuania is 3.1 million. and will not change as a result of this temporary reduction in supply.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, in Lithuania, the first dose of the vaccine was administered to 38 thousand people. people. The second dose has not started yet.
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