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While coronavirus vaccines have been administered since January, some counties were left without vaccines since the local infection rates remained relatively low. Starting this week, counties such as Põlva, Valga and Lääne-Viru can finally begin vaccinations. As of recommendations made by the state immunoprophylaxis expert work group, the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines will be administered to people aged 70 and up, with those aged under receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. According to regional daily Lõuna-Eesti Postimees (link in Estonian), as vaccine shipments have begun increasing in capacity recently, family physicians in Hiiu, Saare, Lääne, Lääne-Viru, Põlva and Valga counties can finally begin vaccinating people for COVID-19. ....
At a time when many frontline workers have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus and physicians are awaiting the next shipment of vaccines, council members of Rakvere Hospital received their injections already, Virumaa Teataja writes. Virumaa Teataja (link in Estonian) did not have any specific information on whether or not all medical staff of Rakvere Hospital have received a vaccination, but the staff has written up an inquiry to the hospital board to ask why so-called regular citizens were vaccinated. On Wednesday and Thursday, at least four hospital council members were vaccinated: chairman Toomas Varek, Mihkel Juhkam (Rakvere city council chairman), Peep Vassiljev (Rakvere municipality council chairman) and Einar Vallbaum (Viru-Nigula municipality elder). ....