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In one year, more than 13,000 boys aged over 11 were vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), the National Public Health Centre (NVSC) announced.

Some 700 monkeypox vaccine doses will arrive in Lithuania in the coming weeks, Deputy Health Minister Ausra Bilotiene Motiejuniene said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian Health Minister Arunas Dulkys expects the medical community to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of January if vaccine deliveries go smoothly.

Lithuanian municipalities are ready to organize the COVID-19 vaccination process, but want the central government to clarify the procedure, President Gitanas Nauseda said on Monday.

COVID-19 vaccines could be delivered to Lithuania a bit sooner but it would be a small number of dozes, Audrius Sceponavicius, the director of the Public Health Department at the Ministry of Health, says.

The majority of people in Lithuania could be immunized against the coronavirus by the middle of summer, the country's President Gitanas Nauseda says.

A minister in Boris Johnson’s government said the U.K. won the race to approve a coronavirus vaccine because it’s a “better country,” threatening to amplify a row over Britain claiming credit for the shot.

The first batch of a COVID-19 vaccine is likely to reach Lithuania by the end of December, outgoing Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.

Lithuania will contribute another 2.5 million euros to the EU's Emergency Support Instrument (ESI) for the development of a portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines, the outgoing Cabinet of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis decided on Wednesday.

Lithuania's outgoing government approved on Wednesday the Health Ministry's proposal to buy 1.24 million coronavirus vaccines from BioNTech and Pfizer.

The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday the Health Ministry's proposal to acquire 1.5 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine from Sanofi and GSK.

The first coronavirus vaccine dozes could reach Lithuania as early as January, the country's Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga says.

Two Covid-19 vaccines stalled by potential side effects have one key feature in common: both are based on adenoviruses, cold germs that researchers have used in experimental therapies for decades with varying results.

Only half of Lithuanian residents would get a coronavirus vaccine once it is become available, and the same proportion of Lithuanians would refuse to get vaccinated, a public survey by Vilmorus for BNS has revealed.

Russia’s version of America’s Operation Warp Speed vaccine project is located far from the Kremlin on a sleepy side street on the outskirts of Moscow.

Biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific says its Vilnius branch is not producing coronavirus vaccines but is providing reagents that can be used in the development of a vaccine.

Lithuania may need over 100 million euros to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, the country's prime minister and its health minister said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's State Defense Council will decide on the country's participation in the creation of a coronavirus vaccine together with EU member states.

Lithuania and Latvia have issued a joint international tender to purchase a pneumococcal vaccine, the Lithuanian National Health Insurance Fund said on Tuesday.

After a ruling from the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, the Ministry of Health will be forced to overturn its decree on mandatory vaccination for children in kindergarten. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.