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On the first day of vaccination, until 5:00 p.m., 2,270 doctors were vaccinated: in Vilnius – 700, in Kaunas – 440, in Klaipėda – 160, in Šiauliai – 120, in Panevėžys – 850 people. The procedure was carried out at 26 vaccination points, reports the Ministry of Health.
Five vaccination centers, Vilnius University Hospital, Santara Clinic, Lithuanian University Hospital of Health Sciences, Kaunas Hospital, Klaipėda University Hospital, Šiauliai Republican Hospital, Panevėžys Republican Hospital, distributed the vaccine received to health institutions in your region that care for patients with the COVID-19 disease. who are exposed to coronavirus face to face on a daily basis.
“It is significant that the doctors from five main hospitals and organizers in Lithuania started vaccination at the same time. It shows the unity of all our doctors in this fight. It is important that healthcare professionals working on front-line COVID-19 patients get vaccinated first. This is the greatest gift for people in the health sector ”, said Prof. Managing Director of Kaunas Clinics. skilled. Dr. Renaldas Jurkevičius.
The first doses of the vaccine are administered to COVID-19 ward workers, emergency department workers, and others who are at high risk of developing COVID-19. According to the director of one of the largest COVID-19 treatment institutions, Clinicas Santara, prof. Feliksas Jankevičius, from now on, everything will be fine.
Lithuania, as recalled in the SAM report, has entered into agreements with six vaccine manufacturers and intends to purchase more than 7 million of them. dose of vaccine. They should be sufficient to vaccinate at least 70%. population of the country. According to experts, such a proportion of the vaccinated population would provide herd immunity against the coronavirus.
The second shipment of the vaccine is expected to arrive in our country on Tuesday.
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