Vaccination plan dispute costs Latvian Health Minister her job

Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš on January 5 asked for the resignation of Minister of Health Ilze Viņkele, claiming she has failed to timely produce a clear and viable plan for vaccinating the citizens of the Baltic country against the Covid-19 virus.

Viņkele told local media that she accepted the Prime Minister’s right to fire her, but called the move an attempt to shift responsibility for what she called “not especially coordinated and smooth crisis management, which in this complicated times should be done by the…