RIGA, April 16 (LETA) - An estimated 1,000 people have received their Covid-19 jabs at Latvia's large vaccination centers in Riga, Jurmala and Jelgava so far this morning, Vaccination Bureau spokeswoman Agnese Strazda informed LETA.

She added that 60 percent of these vaccine doses have been administered in at the ATTA Center in Riga. 

It is planned that 2,000 people will be vaccinated at the ATTA Center on Friday. By 11:22 vaccines had been given to 738 people and another 550 people were still standing in the line. Vaccination at this center is expected to continue for about two more hours. 

As reported, this weekend, the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 has been made available to anyone who wants it at mass vaccination centers in Riga, Daugavpils, Liepaja, Rezekne, Jelgava, Jurmala and Cesis, Agnese Strazda, a spokeswoman for the Vaccination Bureau, told LETA.

People can walk in the vaccination centers in said cities and receive the Covid-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca.

People from priority groups are diverted to a specially queue and they are not be required to present any additional documents except their IDs. The separate queue allows them to get the jab ahead of those standing in the line for non-prioritized people.

Each vaccination center has been supplied with a certain quantity of vaccine doses. A center that will have used up all its doses will close.

Vaccination at the centers will take place from 9:00 till 17:00, except for the vaccination centers in Kipsala Exhibition Hall in Riga and Latgale GORS Concert Hall in Rezekne which will remain open until 19:00.

Health Minister Daniels Pavluts (For Development/For) indicated that in accordance with the free queue principle, this weekend, any resident of Latvia can come to a vaccination center and get their AstraZeneca jab.

"In these cities we have been actively reaching out to priority groups, but the spare doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine allow other residents to get vaccinated as well," the minister said.