RIGA, April 6 (LETA) - About 60 percent of people during Easter holidays refused vaccines due to different reasons, said Veselibas Centru Apvieniba (VCA) health care center representative Lolita Kerve.

VCA is ensuring mass vaccination at Atta center in Riga, as well as in Jelgava, Liepaja and Jurmala.

VCA employees received lists of people registered on manavakcina.lv portal - more than 10,000 persons. VCA specialists worked throughout Easter holidays to contact these people, and almost 3,000 were vaccinated during the holidays, said Kerve.

Most or 1,973 people received vaccines at Atta center in Riga, 438 people in Jurmala, 491 in Jelgava and 65 in Liepaja.

Kerve some 60 percent of the contacted people refused to come to vaccination during Easter holidays. The reasons were different - other plans for holidays, unwillingness to receive the available vaccine, some wanted to receive the vaccine in a medical center, not a mass vaccination site, other had to postpone vaccination due to health issues.