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According to G. Nausėda, the office of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, reported that the vaccines should reach Lithuania, as well as other European Union countries, before December 26.
According to the Presidency report, in the opinion of G. Nausėda, “vaccination should start in Lithuania the next day”.
The President of the European Commission has announced that the first shipment of the vaccine will arrive in the European Union on December 26. Lithuania will have a proportional 0.6 percent. part of the first batch of vaccine, that is, several thousand doses. Lithuania, like other countries, will reach a previously agreed quantity of vaccines in proportion to the population, thus ensuring transparency in the distribution of vaccines in the European Union. As soon as it receives the vaccine, Lithuania will start vaccinating its citizens, ”says G. Nausėda.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Gitanas Nausėda
According to the president, the second shipment of vaccines will arrive in Lithuania in January.
European medical agency Pfizer and BioNTech plan to approve the vaccine on December 21.
In Lithuania, doctors and older people in the highest risk group will be the first to get vaccinated.
G.Nausėda said by phone on Thursday with Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte “the need to accelerate preparations for vaccination and ensure the efficiency of the vaccination process in Lithuania next week.”
Lithuania has already decided to buy vaccines from six companies: Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Sanofi and GSK, BioNTech and Pfizer and CureVac.
The Minister of Health, Arūnas Dulkys, says that it is currently planned to buy 7.2 million. doses of vaccines. The budget for next year foresees 65 million. euros. The first shipments from BioNTech and Pfizer, according to SAM, should be enough for about 5,000. vaccination of people.
A. Dulkys confirms that the number of vaccines delivered is less than promised, but the full amount is promised to be delivered in 2021.
Lithuania is currently one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus in Europe and the world.
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