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“Now the most important thing is … to put the logistics in the right way, and the Health Ministry is working on that,” the prime minister told reporters on Tuesday.
According to her, the outgoing government did not make the necessary decisions and only transferred responsibility to the municipalities “without any real implementation mechanism of how the municipalities should ensure that vaccination.”
“There is a more declarative proposal for everyone to somehow solve the problems for themselves, but it is obvious that more work will be needed,” said the prime minister.
According to her, initially Lithuania will reach 10 thousand. The doses of the vaccine are “very low by any assessment,” but he said he sees this as an initial stage followed by larger shipments.
She says doctors will be vaccinated first, then people at risk, and then the rest of society.
The prime minister stressed that the vaccines will be voluntary and the government will provide clear and transparent information about the vaccine, its benefits and risks, so that there is no suspicion that something is being silenced.
“Obviously, there are always people in society who deny vaccines in general as a solution to the problem, and sometimes we have them in the Seimas, but apparently trying to convince them to do the opposite is quite a thankless activity. We should simply take the time and effort to inform those who, in principle, support or at least doubt and listen to the information, “he said.
I. Šimonytė emphasized that widespread public vaccination is like a “ticket to freedom” and if people are vaccinated slowly, the restrictions will have to last longer.
“Basically, members of society have the right to buy a ticket to freedom. And if you want to buy, you can buy, and if not, then we may not be able to avoid restrictions of one kind or another for a period of time. longer time, ”he said.
Currently, the European Medicines Agency is testing coronavirus vaccines developed by pharmaceutical companies.
It previously announced that it would hold a special meeting no later than December 29 to decide whether to grant a conditional marketing authorization for the vaccine being developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.
Lithuania buys vaccines against the coronavirus together with other countries of the European Union. The first doses can be reached in the Member States later this year or early next year.
Lithuania has already decided to buy vaccines from six companies: Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Sanofi and GSK, BioNTech and Pfizer and CureVac.
It is planned to buy enough vaccines to vaccinate 70% of them. population, but due to existing agreements and efforts to reduce risks, significantly more will be purchased than the population as a whole. Unused vaccines will be available for sale or donation to third parties.
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