The vaccination of teachers and education staff is intensely going on in Shijak municipality too. “We have started the vaccine rollout for the preschool education staff, who, together with teachers and academic staff, are part of the vaccination of educators,” the Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu as she accompanied the Prime Minister Edi Rama while touring one of the vaccination sites in the town of Shijak. “A total of 20,000 teachers have received the vaccine so far. The vaccination rollout is progressing well across the country and I can say it is really an exemplary process. More than 62,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered so far and the mass inoculation is set to start tomorrow. Vaccine supplies have been distributed to health authorities throughout the country,” Manastirliu said.

The Premier asked about the health condition of the newly vaccinated teachers and called for utmost caution and care in the first days after receiving the vaccine. “Everyone should be careful until antibodies are developed,” he said.

 

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The Premier, accompanied by the Mayor of Shijak, Elton Arbana, inspected various reconstruction sites in the town of Shijak, where the reconstruction process is progressing fast and where business is thriving again. “The reconstruction of the damaged residential building has also completed. The residential buildings in the town’s centre have been reconstructed and the businesses have all restarted their activity. Construction of 30 new apartment buildings is underway in the town of Shijak, with structural construction of most of them now having progressed to second and third floor. The majority of them will complete by August and the rest are scheduled to complete in October and November,” Mayor Arbana said, who added that work to reconstruct the mosque and the cultural centre has yet to begin. The mosque has sustained damages due to the earthquake. The mosque will be built by the Muslim Community, while the cultural centre will be built adjacent to the mosque about which a design has been already prepared and its construction will kick off soon. The site where the cultural centre is located will be made available to the Muslim Community to build a new larger and stronger mosque than the one damaged by the earthquake.”