VILNIUS: Latvia and Lithuania will resume giving vaccines using AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots on Friday (March 19), health ministers of both countries said.
Starting Friday, people will be able to choose which vaccine to use for their injection in Lithuania, the country’s health minister Arunas Dulkys told reporters.
In a show of confidence in the AstraZeneca vaccine, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, as well as the parliament’s spokesperson and the health minister himself, would receive the AstraZeneca view on Monday, the minister said. .
The EU drug watchdog said on Thursday it remained confident the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine outweighed the risks after examining reports of blood problems that forced more than a dozen countries to stop it.
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