2020-12-28 12:36:11 GMT2020-12-28 20:36:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
RIGA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Latvia's COVID-19 vaccination campaign started on Monday with the first batch of shots going to medical practitioners of 10 hospitals nationwide.
The country's first jab was given here at the Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, whose representative Janita Veinberga told reporters that the hospital planned to inoculate 1,055 people within three days.
Latvia received the first 9,750 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Saturday and stored them in a health facility's freezers.
Health Minister Ilze Vinkele repeatedly stressed that the vaccination process in Latvia will be transparent and voluntary.
After the current round of vaccination, vaccines will be made available to people in other high-risk jobs like care providers at nursery homes, police officers and rescuers, as well as elderly people and those with chronic health conditions.