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Doctors were the first to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in Tallinn on December 27. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
While the first shipment of the long-awaited AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Estonia on Sunday, the 7,200 doses are currently in storage as schools are still drawing up and sending their lists of vaccine applicants to the Ministry of Education and Research.
Last Thursday, February 4, the government approved a decision to add education workers to the list of frontline workers, prioritized for vaccinations. The next day, the Ministry of Social Affairs gave the Ministry of Education the responsiblity to gather up lists of vaccine applicants from education establishments.