Lithuania started vaccinating hospital medics working directly with COVID-19 patients in late December, and their vaccination with two vaccine dozes is about to be completed.

Meanwhile, the vaccination of the biggest risk groups, including patients, volunteers assisting in the COVID-19 treatment, workers and residents of care and palliative care, social services establishments, with two vaccine dozes should be completed in February.

A number of other priority groups are scheduled to be immunized over the upcoming several months, with mass vaccination of the population set to start in July.

The Health Ministry underlines that the schedule is preliminary and is based on the existing information on the size of priority groups and vaccine delivery plans, adding that its plans are based on the delivery schedules of only two vaccine producers – BionTech/Pfizer and Moderna.

"The volumes to be delivered in Q3 and Q4 have been distributed on assumption that vaccine delivery will take place regularly every week," the ministry said, adding that the schedule would be updated once new information is received.

EU residents started receiving the BionTech/Pfizer jab last month, and the Moderna vaccine was approved in nearly January. The European Union plans to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine as early as this week, with its first shipments are expected in Lithuania in early February.

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