The first coronavirus vaccine doses could reach Lithuania as early as January, the country's Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga told reporters on Tuesday.
"I think it’s realistic to receive the first doses in January,” the minister said.
“But that doesn’t mean that all vaccines would arrive, because we could expect to receive some of them only in the second half of next year as they are in very different creation stages," he added.
Veryga also underlined that everything would depend on producers and how they would manage to resolve registration and delivery issues, adding that the majority of vaccines could be delivered later.
Lithuania, alongside other EU member states, is taking part in the coordinated vaccine procurement headed by the European Commission.
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