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On average, 9.9 thousand people were vaccinated every day this week. That’s nearly 2,000 more than last week, but the country’s leaders say COVID-19 vaccination is slow.
President Gitanas Nausėda pointed out that Lithuania lags behind most European Union (EU) countries in the number of vaccinated elderly people. Currently, just over 40 percent have been vaccinated. population over 80 years old.
The president drew the attention of city leaders to ensure that people of respectable age had access to vaccination sites.
According to G.Nausėda, older residents are also deterred from vaccines by misinformation and fear: there is a lack of information about vaccines.
The COVID-19 vaccination rates in Lithuanian municipalities are very different. Kaunas is the leader among large cities, where 19% were vaccinated with the first dose. population. 17.9% were vaccinated in Alytus, 15.7% in Panevėžys, 14.9% in Šiauliai, 14.6% in Vilnius, 13.9% in Klaipėda. population.
The largest: 27.8 percent. of the population – the first dose was vaccinated in Neringa and Birštonas, in Druskininkai this number reaches 21.6%, in Rokiškis district – 20.6%, in Jurbarkas district – 20%.
The lowest vaccination of the population was recorded in the Šalčininkai district, only 6.5%, in the Vilnius district, 9.8%.
A total of 85,291 people have been vaccinated since last Friday. More than 16,000 people have already been vaccinated with the second dose of the vaccine.
Employees of large companies have also been included in the priority lists, but will only be vaccinated if not all available vaccines are used for the higher priority groups.
Municipalities are advised to prioritize those companies with the highest number of COVID-19 outbreaks.
Police officers who organized a protest at Government House also received the vaccine. The first dose of the vaccine has been administered to almost 1,500 officials, and the second, so far only 16.
During the weekend, the police will be on duty again in the tourist centers; The liberation of the movement between municipalities is expected to gather many tourists by the sea.
Palanga is bracing for an influx of tourists over the weekend: almost all the rooms in the resort hotels sold out on Friday.
General Police Commissioner Renatas Požėla left yesterday for Palanga to prepare for a difficult weekend. He discussed with resort managers how to manage vacationer teams to keep them at safe distances and not host parties.
The mayor of Palanga advised residents to take care of food in advance so that they would not have to travel to crowded supermarkets on the weekend.
Up to four police teams usually work in Palanga every day, there should be twelve of them on the weekend. The complex will be staffed by police officers from the surrounding villages, two highway police teams from the capital.
Officers will patrol on foot, motorcycles, observe supermarkets, private parties.
