Lithuania has received 138,200 doses of an Omicron-adapted coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry reports. The vaccine targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 coronavirus sub-variants will be used for the first or second booster shots, with producers expected to deliver more than half a million adapted vaccine doses in October. The second booster shot of the vaccine…
Georgian health minister Zurab Azarashvili on October 3 said financing of medications against chronic illnesses would be increased by GEL 30 million ($10.68 million) in the 2023 state budget. He also said the list of subsidised drugs would be expanded as part of the move. “We will implement reference pricing for medications beginning in January.…
100,200 doses of an Omicron-adapted coronavirus vaccine have reached Lithuania, the Health Ministry said on October 3. Adapted to the Omicron subtypes BA.4 and BA.5, the vaccine will be used as the first or second booster shots. Vaccine makers plan to deliver more than half a million doses of the adapted vaccines in October, the…
The National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) has announced hat the antibiotic preparations for the treatment of animals will be marketed only under veterinary prescription. The ANSA Order on restriction of the use of antimicrobial substances in animals for combating antimicrobial resistance entered into force on September 13. “Veterinary pharmacies will no longer sell veterinary…
A new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine specifically targeting new, more contagious types of the Covid-19 Omicron variant is expected to arrive in Lithuania in October, the Health Ministry has said. “The first shipment of the vaccine against the BA.4 and BA.5 coronavirus sub-variants will reach Lithuania in early October,” Tomas Bagdonas, an adviser to the health minister,…
Three projects worth 1.2 million euros have been implemented by the Health Ministry with the support of the Czech Republic in the last years. A ceremony on the presentation of the project on the endowment with equipment of the Health Ministry’s Clinical Hospital, implemented with the support of the Czech government, took place on September…
The first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine adapted to the Omicron variant have been delivered to Lithuania, the Health Ministry reports. The first shipment to reach the country on September 6 contained 51,840 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Julijanas Galisanskis of the Health Ministry said, adding that the remaining 100,000 doses should be delivered next…