The State Vaccination Plan Could Be Changed, Inoculated Journalists as Risk Group

Even in the third phase when according to the State Vaccination Plan, “vaccination will extend to the rest of 50% (or 900,000) of the population in order to reach the 70% limit of the immunization coverage defined by the country”, it does not figure there will be vaccinated by media workers who could not avoid contact with the population, during field reports in more than a year of confronting the pandemic.

The update of this plan will take place according to the needs of the vaccination process and journalists will be vaccinated, they have declared by the Ministry of Health in response to Telegrafi.

Under what was planned, Kosovo will briefly close the first phase of the vaccine, but it is still not known when the update of the plan will take place.

“COVID-19 will be held under the State Vaccination Plan. This plan will be updated according to the needs of this process”, said the Health Ministry's response.

The Ministry of Health also said the focus is at the moment on immunization of elderly and chronically ill people.

“Under the Plan envisions vaculation of each group of the population that needs to be vaccinated, according to different categories and phases, and, of course, journalists will be vaccinated, but at the moment the focus is on the elderly and people with chronic diseases”, it says further in response.

The request for getting involved journalists, cameramen and photo reporters in high-priced groups who will be isolated from the first doses of vaccines Kosovo has admitted to the Kosovo Journalists' Association at the Ministry of Health.

The association of Kosovo Journalists AGK, on April 6th and 14th has submitted requests to the Ministry of Health to include journalists, cameramen and photoreporters in high priority groups, which will be isolated from the first doses of vaccines Kosovo has accepted”, says the AGK response.

According to them, this demand has been made “for the fact that journalists have consistently contributed during the pandemic, both with fair information and the prevention of disinformation.

Their entire activity has been extended to the front line, along with other essential employees. They've been reporting from infection centres since the first case appearance with the COVID-19 in Kosovo, they've covered political and social events as well, in the most professional way possible, while facing a stranger for all of us, said the AGK's response.

That request, the Health Ministry had responded on April 14th, stressing that depending on the amount of vaccines available will also be planned to vaccinate journalists, which AGK, according to the MSH's response, will be announced over time.

Vulnerable visumons cannot work from home and are at high risk during daily work even in large crowds. According to the vaccine plan, journalists are part of the group of people who cannot avoid contact with the population. Depending on the provision of the amount of vaccines, there will be planning on the time of vaccination of risk groups, where in real time you will be publicly notified”, the ministry's response to the AGK says.

Otherwise, in the Republic of Kosovo with the first dose of anti vaccine CO VID is now immune to over 50,000 people.

The Ministry of Health today has called on citizens of every age group to register and apply for taking the vaccine against COVID-19.

AV reported that 4,067 citizens were vaccinated yesterday, while 50,176 doses of vaccines were conducted from the start of the vaccine. COVID-19.