Lithuania will not be able to vaccinate 70 percent of the population by the end of summer under current vaccine delivery schedules, according to Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys.
“Frankly, [...] today these schedules don't guarantee the achievement of this target,” he said on LRT TV on Wednesday evening. “But this doesn't mean that we won't be able to do it if the situation changes and we start receiving larger quantities of vaccines from producers.”
Lithuania has the infrastructure ready to vaccinate 70 percent of the population by late summer, if more vaccine doses are available, according to the minister.
“The only remaining issue on which EU bodies, leaders and diplomats are working on now is how to ensure faster vaccine deliveries by manufacturers,” he said.
Lithuania is currently using coronavirus vaccines developed by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
The latest figures show that almost 80,000 people in Lithuania have received their first coronavirus vaccine shots and more than 50,000 have already been given two jabs.
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