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Nijolė Ramonaitė, a nurse at the Center for Infectious Diseases, became the first person to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Santara clinics of the Vilnius University Hospital. The vaccination was successful.
You can watch a video of how the first person was vaccinated at the Santara clinics below. 8 pm 30 minutes. a press conference will be held.
Clinicas Santara press conference:
“We are very happy to have started the vaccination process today. Looking at it seems like a very simple procedure, but it marks the beginning of a very important process. Because without vaccination, we certainly will not cope with this pandemic. Of course, we wear protective equipment. staff, of course, we have started a very strict quarantine, but that is not enough, ”said Feliksas Jankevičius, director of the Santara clinics after vaccinating the first person.
He said he hoped that vaccination would bring the best results and that it would be possible to vaccinate not only doctors but the entire population quickly.
Almost 10,000 will be vaccinated first. doctor
The shipment with 9,750 doses of vaccine arrived in Lithuania in the evening from Friday to Saturday. On Saturday, the vaccine was distributed to hospitals in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys, which are responsible for the management of COVID-19 in the regions.
Vilnius and Kaunas hospitals received 2,925 doses of vaccine each, Klaipėda hospital received 1,950 doses, and Šiauliai and Panevėžys hospitals received 975 doses each.
It is planned to use all the vaccines received on Saturday when the first doctors are vaccinated. The second dose for these co-vaccinated personnel, who need to be vaccinated after 21 days, will be administered in subsequent shipments.
Doctors will be vaccinated with a vaccine developed jointly by BioNTech and Pfizer. This vaccine is the first and so far the only one authorized in the European Union, with the European Commission authorizing its distribution on Monday, when it was recommended by the European Medicines Agency.
After the vaccination of doctors working in healthcare institutions in Lithuania, in the second stage, vaccines will be administered to employees and patients of medical institutions providing supportive care and nursing services.
The second shipment of the vaccine is expected to arrive in Lithuania on December 29, with slightly more doses expected than received this time. The third shipment is expected in early January.
It is not clear when mass vaccination will begin in the country and everyone who wants will be able to get vaccinated, but, according to the current situation, in 2021. there will be no mass vaccination in the first quarter.
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