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As already announced, this week the European Commission (EC) authorized the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer / BioNTech in the European Union (EU). It was recently approved by the European Medicines Agency.
The first shipment of vaccines should arrive in Lithuania on Saturday, the portal 15 minutes informed the Ministry of Health (SAM). Exactly how many doses we should receive is not advertised. Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys has previously mentioned that in the beginning almost 10,000 people can come. doses – both almost 5 thousand. people.
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The vaccination is scheduled to begin on Sunday, December 27 at 8 pm Vaccines will be delivered regularly, according to an agreed schedule, to all EU members. As SAM Chancellor Jurgita Grebenkovienė told LRT TV this week, the second batch of vaccines should be delivered before the end of the year, after which they will be administered regularly, every week.
According to SAM representatives, it is planned to vaccinate doctors working in health institutions. They are followed by employees and patients of medical institutions that provide supportive care and nursing services. These groups should be vaccinated in the first trimester of next year. Other people will be invited to get vaccinated after addressing the priority groups.
Ministry specialists periodically consult with the EC to ensure the proper functioning of the vaccination mechanism. The first shipment of vaccines will be distributed to hospitals in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys.
The municipalities will be used for the second phase. The directors of their administrations have appointed a coordinator, a municipal doctor or another member of the staff, who will coordinate the process in the area and the personal health establishments that will organize the vaccination of priority groups. SAM experts intend to cooperate with them. The directors of the municipal administrations are also obliged to designate at least one personal medical care institution to organize vaccination. You must be able to vaccinate the population belonging to the priority groups within 5 days (120 hours) of the delivery of the vaccine.
According to J. Grebenkovienė, the priority groups after doctors and patients are people over 65 years of age and people with chronic diseases.
Kaunas has already announced where people could be vaccinated: the former premises of the Kaunas Central Post Office in Laisvės Alley, where up to 1,400 people could be vaccinated per day.
Audrius Ščeponavičius, Head of the SAM Public Health Department, who participated in the meeting of the Seimas Defense and National Security Committee in mid-December, stated that Lithuania intends to acquire 7.2 million LTL under agreements preliminaries. vaccine dose. According to him, two refrigerators for storing vaccines have already been purchased, Lithuania has warehouses, syringes and other equipment are being purchased. It is being considered that people could register for vaccination with the short number now registered for testing, 1808.
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