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In Lithuania, many more people were known to have died from coronavirus than previously known due to an error in digitizing epidemiological data, the Baltic State Ministry of Health said in Vilnius on Tuesday.
According to the information, during data verification, 804 previously unrecorded deaths were found.
It was found that 324 deaths from coronavirus and 480 people infected with coronavirus who died from other causes were not included.
– affirms in the communication of the Ministry. The discrepancy appeared when comparing the cases registered so far with the data from the Lithuanian Statistical Office covering the period from October to December.
According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Lithuania currently has the highest infection rate in Europe.
In Lithuania, with a population of 2.8 million, 134,285 people have been registered so far, of which 1,347 have died, according to official figures. In neighboring Latvia, with a population of almost two million, the number of infected people is 37,676 and the number of deaths is 603. In Estonia, with a population of 1.3 million, there are 26,283 registered infections and the epidemic is it has claimed the lives of 221 people so far.
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