NVSC misses the activity of medical facilities in ordering COVID-19 vaccines

The NVSC warned about this by making it possible to get vaccinated against both COVID-19 and influenza at the same time in health facilities from Thursday.

“We miss the more active ordering of this (COVID-19) vaccine by Lithuanian health care institutions,” Daiva Razmuvienė, chief specialist of the Infectious Diseases Management Department of NVSC, told LRT radio on Thursday.

According to her, both flu and COVID-19 vaccines have already reached Lithuania.

D. Razmuvienė said that patients are already applying to medical institutions and miss the coronavirus vaccine, and the desire to get vaccinated before receiving it may disappear.

The specialist emphasized that the risk groups for flu and coronavirus are the same, so medical institutions should be more active in inviting people to get vaccinated against both diseases at once.

She also said that she knows of examples where doctors sometimes recommend not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

“This is a spoonful of tar in the barrel, it shouldn’t be.” A doctor must provide correct information without misleading, because a doctor is an authority for a person,” said D. Razmuvienė.

Lithuania purchased 200 thousand flu vaccine doses, COVID-19 vaccine “Comirnaty XBB.1.5” – 115.2 thousand doses for adults and 4.8 thousand doses to vaccinate children aged 5-11 years.

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