Lithuania redirects vaccines to Vilnius amid spiking hospitalisations
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Vaccination / J. Stacevičius/LRT
With coronavirus infections spiking in Vilnius, the government has redirected almost half of the country s vaccines to the capital city, irking other municipalities that say the move will upset their own vaccination plans.
The Lithuanian Health Ministry said on Monday it has allocated 46,512 vaccine doses to vaccination centres in Vilnius, accounting to 44 percent of the shipments received over the weekend and Monday.
The ministry s comment came after several mayors said that the redistribution of vaccines would prevent their municipalities from carrying out some of this week s planned vaccinations.
Lithuania investigates missing 20 train cars of PPE supplies from China
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PPE arriving in Lithuania from China, 2020. / D. Umbrasas/LRT
On Thursday, the Lithuanian Health Ministry turned to law-enforcement bodies over missing personal protective equipment (PPE) worth 912,000 euros. We, together with the Health Emergency Situations Center s team, have asked the Prosecutor General s Office to launch legal proceedings with the aim to identify the causes of this shortage and those responsible for it, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys told reporters.
The missing PPE are part of a 24-million-euro order from China, according to the minister. Almost 850,000 items – goggles, medical caps and masks, and disposable gowns and gloves – are missing, he said, adding this is an amount equivalent to around 20 railroad cars.
April Fool s joke about Sputnik V vaccine lands Lithuanian mayor in hot water
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April Fool s joke about Sputnik V vaccine lands Lithuanian mayor in hot water / Facebook/Screengrab
An April Fool’s Day Facebook post offering Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has landed a mayor of a Lithuanian town in hot water.
Andrius Bautronis, mayor of Raseiniai in central Lithuania, posted on Wednesday that his area “was lucky” to be the first to administer the shots.
Lithuanian officials have voiced their opposition against allowing the Russian vaccine to be used in the European Union. The bloc’s health authority, the European Medicine Agency, is now reviewing the Russian jab.