On Wednesday, 6 October, 6 468 people in Latvia received the first, second or third dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The percentage of fully vaccinated people in Latvia exceeds 50%, according to the latest information from Latvian National Health Service (NVD). It should be noted that this information does not include all the data for the last several days.
943 244 people in Latvia have been vaccinated for Covid-19 so far. This is equal to 50.11% of the country’s population, according to the provisional population census data from the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia as of July 2021. 876 523 people or 46.57% of the population have completed the vaccination course.
A look at different age groups reveals that by Wednesday 54.51% of Latvia’s population 18 years or older have completed the vaccination process. Estimates included other data from CSP – population numbers for the start of 2021. The same data shows 53.03% of Latvia’s residents aged 12 years or older have completed the vaccination course.
Residents younger than 12 years do not currently under go vaccination for Covid-19 in the European Union.
In Estonia 762 305 or 57.36% of the population have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine jab. 712 718 of them have completed the vaccination course, which is equal to 53.63% of the country’s population, according to Estonia’s official Covid-19 vaccination portal vaktsineeri.ee.
In Lithuania 1 756 793 people have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine jab, which is equal to 62.7% of the population. 1 626 457 (58%) of them have completed the vaccination course, according to Lithuania’s official Covid-19 vaccination portal osp.stat.gov.lt.
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The number of vaccinated people in Latvia increased on Wednesday. Nevertheless, exact vaccination numbers may change. The reason is because not all doctors input vaccination data into the system on the same day as they administer jabs. Sometimes data is put in with a delay of several days.
Unfortunately, Covid-19 vaccination rate remains several times behind the rate observed at the end of May, when more than 16 700 people were vaccinated on average every day in a single week.
On Wednesday 2 543 people in Latvia received their first jab with Covid-19 vaccine, 2 132 received the second, 1 772 were vaccinated using Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine, which requires only one jab. 21 people received Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, according to data from NVD.
There are four Covid-19 vaccines approved for use in the EU: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and J&J or Janssen.
Half of Latvia’s residents have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine jab
