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Representatives of the Freedom Party, which also includes the mayor of the capital, Aušrinė Armonaitė and MP Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, as well as peasants: former Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga, his party colleague Lukas Savickas and others were the first to go to vaccination. center in municipal building of the capital.
“It is good that vaccination with this vaccine has not been stopped for a long time and that it has been resumed soon. I personally trust this vaccine, which we hear, other members of the Government are also vaccinated, I trust. Millions of people in the world trust it, it is a British-Swedish company, there is no reason to distrust it. We show with our example that everything is fine ”, said A. Armonaitė.
I had to talk to other colleagues
The Minister hopes that in the near future the Ministry of Health will update the vaccination priority order by adding new groups.
His colleague, Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė, says he trusts the European Medicines Agency and the country’s scientists, who have confirmed that the vaccine is safe.
“It just came to our knowledge then. But we see that there is a wavering trust in society, some people refuse to get vaccinated because they have certain fears. It was agreed that we will try to show each one of us with our example that we trust and there are far fewer threats what fears ”, said the Minister.
After the vaccine, former Minister A. Veryga said that “he had to talk to many people on the phone” to convince him of the benefits of the vaccine and he hoped that not many would refuse to be vaccinated at the Seimas.
Opposition politicians currently praised the vaccination organization, but criticized the communication, saying that one of the “serious communication errors” was the decision to suspend AstraZeneca vaccination for a short time.
“It would not have stopped vaccination, especially since the European Medicines Agency did not make such a proposal. What will he do? I hope that the changes that the Minister has made by allowing people to choose the vaccine, allowing heads of state to get vaccinated, to set an example, maybe in a sense offset those mistakes, “he said. A. Veryga.
There will be parliamentarians who will not vaccinate
Remigijus Žemaitaitis, a representative of the mixed group of members of the Seimas, says that the vaccine is “the only way to return to a normal life”, but lamented the damaged reputation of AstraZeneca.
In his opinion, in addition to the most prominent vaccine-skeptical farmer, Dainius Kepenis, there may be between 20 and 30 MPs in the Seimas who will reject vaccines.
“If we criticize the Seimas members who continue to flirt in the Baltic Sea with a deliberate wish and deny that it is a fight, even if they get sick enough, they scratch the deathbed for two weeks and say there is no fight – I cannot condemn them I think we’ll have enough of them, around 20-30, that they won’t, “he said.
In all, more than 30 MPs and about half of the ministers are scheduled to be vaccinated on Tuesday. Politicians will continue to get vaccinated on Wednesday and Thursday. In addition to them, the municipality plans to vaccinate another 180 residents of the capital this Tuesday.
Executives were vaccinated on Monday
President Gitanas Nausėda, Seimas President Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys were all vaccinated with the vaccine on Monday.
V. Čmilytė-Nielsen on Facebook who had a fever after the vaccination Tuesday night, felt bathed in the stabbing, but the head of parliament said she was ready for Tuesday’s work.
“The general feeling is no less than 8 out of 10. I am presiding over the morning session,” wrote the president of Seimas.
Last week, the Minister of Health added to the list of priority vaccination groups COVID-19 to include the President, members of the Seimas and the Government.
This is to show confidence in AstraZeneca.
In Lithuania and the European Union, vaccination with AstraZeneca was temporarily suspended last week due to identified cases of thromboembolism in vaccinated people.
On Thursday, the European Medicines Agency announced that this vaccine against COVID-19 is safe and effective, so vaccination with this vaccine has been renewed in Lithuania.
