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AstraZeneca vaccine is flat and flat in 730 doses. “We don’t move much,” Josif Rybak, Šalčininkai district municipal administration director, told BNS on Tuesday.
According to the Department of Statistics, only three people were vaccinated with the first dose in the district on Monday and 26 with the second.
This vaccination rate is the slowest in the country.
According to the director of administration, most of the elderly living in the district fear being vaccinated.
“We have a mass of people over 65 who live on individual farms and villages, feel alone there … They are afraid of the consequences and wait for spring before their grandchildren arrive. Currently, there are about 50 per one hundred who refused, “said one of the chiefs of the municipality.
According to him, residents are invited to get vaccinated without interruption and there is also the opportunity to register.
The municipality encourages younger family members to help older ones to do so.
“We called non-stop. We have published an email. email for those who want to register, as social workers, doctors and the elderly call it, ”said J. Rybakas.
According to him, the municipality is currently building lists of younger people who want to get vaccinated.
“Queues are already forming where there are people under 65, there are those who want to. If there were a mass vaccination, AstraZeneca would also go, said the director of the municipal administration of the Šalčininkai district.
However, it is necessary to change vaccination regimens to vaccinate younger people.
“We are waiting for the moment when there will be a permit, we do not want to violate the general order (…). We are waiting for the next priority group to be activated, “said J. Rybakas.
He stated that all Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are used in the area.
Information missing in Russian and Polish
Jolanta Butkevičienė, representative of the Social Democrats on the Šalčininkai district council, told BNS that advertising campaigns were lacking in the national media in Russian and Polish.
“Very limited information reaches people who are not prepared for people who speak another language. There should be an advertising campaign like this (…) If we talk about all sources of information, the main televisions, ”said J. Butkevičienė.
He also believes that older people in the area can be encouraged not to get vaccinated by their younger family members.
“There is a problem that older people consult with their children and because they are skeptical, it is transmitted. When there is no single reliable source, when there is a lot of information, there is fear for the people, ”said the councilor.
According to her, some people may even be afraid to go to medical institutions because they have had several cases of coronavirus.
“A person needs to be explained, told, persuaded and we will lose that information war,” said J. Butkevičienė.
At the end of February, the Šalčininkai district municipality posted a video on its Youtube channel and on the municipality’s website calling for vaccination against COVID-19 in Lithuanian and Polish.
In Šalčininkai district, a total of 1,161 people were vaccinated with the first dose, which is only 3.84 percent. of the general population, the second dose – 508 people.
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