The COVID-19 vaccinations for teachers and education sector workers started in the city of Lezhe at one of the city’s high schools today, a process attended also by the Prime Minister Edi Rama, accompanied by the Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu, who informed that “a total of “38.400 AstraZeneca vaccine doses have been distributed all over the country and the vaccine rollout for teachers and education staff is already underway in Lezhe, Kruje, Divjake, and elsewhere across the country.”

Commenting on the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Rama noted that “Italy’s National Health Service has reintroduced AstraZeneca vaccine, after verifying the vaccine has nothing to do with the reported cases.”

Health Minister Manastirliu noted that adequate measures are in place to ensure most efficient vaccine administering process for teachers and the educational sector workers. “For a more effective administering of the vaccine we have summoned teachers of many schools to a single school, so that the team of vaccinators are concentrated in one place and to make sure that no doses are wasted,” Manastirliu said, adding among others that the immunisation process is also underway for the seniors 80 years old and over in other vaccination sites in Lezhe.

PM Rama underlined that the immunisation drive that is gradually and steady going on aims at easing the tourist season at most. “We will secure a mountain of vaccine doses in the next few days and we will cram Albania with vaccines. Our goal is that we break many links along the infections chain so that the tourism season is more relaxed and gradually restarts.”

Health Minister also announced that another shipment of Pfizer vaccines will be delivered soon. “A batch of 9320 Pfizer vaccine doses will arrive soon and this is very significant as we are going on with the administering of the second dose to many people,” she said.