Blatny: Vaccine recipient substitutes can be from priority groups only

Substitutes to get vaccinated against Covid-19 instead of those who do not show up on their reserved date must be selected only from priority groups, such as seniors over 80 and health personnel, if some vaccine is left in a centre, Health Minister Jan Blatny said on Thursday. The producer is supplying the vaccine to 31 vaccination centres in the Czech Republic, but many of the centres sent the vaccine further to other places and 160 of them now register vaccine recipients, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said.