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According to the Ministry of Health, the first shipment of a vaccine developed jointly by two pharmaceutical companies, BioNTech and Pfizer, was delivered to Lithuania today. In total, Lithuania will buy more than 1.8 million from this manufacturer. vaccine dose.
According to SAM, the shipment was delivered to the warehouses of the Emergency Health Centers (ESSC) and placed in ultra-low temperature freezers purchased specifically for these vaccines, which will be stored at -75 degrees.
The vaccines were stored in ESSC warehouses for two hours, after which they were transported to five main hospitals in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys – Santara Clinic of Vilnius University Hospital, Kaunas Clinic of University of Sciences of the Lithuanian Health, Klaipėda University Hospital, Šiauliai Republican Hospital, Republican Hospital. Panevėžys Hospital. Vaccines were transported from ESSC warehouses to medical facilities using refrigeration equipment, ensuring the maintenance of a “cold chain” and traceability of the temperature regime throughout transportation. Vaccination will begin at these five centers on Sunday.
The first to be vaccinated will be high-risk COVID-19 staff in hospitals treating COVID-19 patients, who are exposed to the insidious virus on a daily basis. The vaccination procedure will need to be repeated after three weeks to develop immunity to the coronavirus.
However, as is evident from the growing public opinion, some of them are skeptical about the possibility of getting vaccinated against the coronavirus. Jonavies, who spoke in the survey of the portal jonavoszinios.lt, also evaluates it in an ambiguous way.
We asked them if they were waiting for the opportunity to get vaccinated. The results of the survey were distributed as follows:
- Yes (31%, 265 bals.)
- Born (50%, 424 balls.)
- I don’t know because I currently lack information (18%, 153 balls.)
A total of 842 readers participated in the survey.
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