Vaccination rates increased significantly last week, representatives of Health Ministry told LSM April 11.
More than 26,500 people were vaccinated last week, according to official statistics, the highest number in one week so far. Last week also saw a record number of vaccinated persons in a single day, 8,542 people on Wednesday.
Health Ministry said that vaccination rates were boosted by a number of aspects: more than 70,740 doses of Covid-19 vaccines received in Latvia last week, as well as two initial experiments important for the vaccination process – the operation of large-scale vaccination centers in the first half of the week, as well as the trial of the live queue on April 10, which saw more than 1,000 people getting their jabs.
(Latvian Public Broadcasting) Last week, the more contagious type of Covid-19 first observed in the UK has spread more rapidly in Latvia, Jurijs Perevoščikovs, epidemiologist at the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC) said at the government meeting February 23.
Of 96 tested Covid-19 samples, 8% were the UK variant, and experience from other countries shows that this contagious type of virus is spreading very rapidly and is soon becoming dominant. And this means that the question is not whether, but when the outbreak of the disease will happen again in Latvia, said the Minister of Health Daniels Pavļuts at the government meeting on Tuesday.
january 8, 22:46 Following the agreement reached between the European Commission (EC) and pharmaceutical companies on the supply of additional doses of BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Latvia has decided to purchase up to 1.4 million doses, reports LSM s Latvian language service.
The decision was announced on Friday, January 8, by Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, and coincided with Health Minister Daniels Pavļuts first day in his new job.
An agreement had previously been reached for the delivery of fewer than 200,000 doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. Latvia has so far received 23,400 doses, with a smaller delivery of 6,825 planned for the beginning of next week, with Kariņš expressing frustration that vaccination is not taking place more quickly.