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During the previous day, 13428 samples were analyzed, since the beginning of the pandemic – 1403151.
2,110 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals, 190 of them in resuscitation, Lithuania Statistics reported on Saturday.
1142 patients need oxygen, 116 people are covered by artificial lung ventilation.
Currently, about half of the hospital beds are occupied: 8,110 out of 16,000. 667.
Of the 685 resuscitation beds, approximately two-thirds are occupied, 403. Of the 637 beds that can be used for artificial lung ventilation, 254 are occupied and of the 6302 oxygen beds, 2181 are occupied.
Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has infected 90,000 people in the country. 252 people, 50 thousand. 300 – still sick, 38 thousand. 768 – recovered.
Most of the dead were elderly
A total of 791 people died from coronavirus in Lithuania and 394 people died from other causes.
27 people died from coronavirus last day, most of them older, the Statistics Department reported on Saturday.
There were three deaths in the 90-99 age group, nine in the 80-89 group, nine in the 70-79 group, five in the 60-69 group, and one death in the 50-59 group.
Eight deaths were recorded in Kaunas county, six in Vilnius, three in Klaipėda and Marijampolė counties, two in Šiauliai and Telšiai, and one in Panevėžys, Alytus and Tauragė counties.
15 of the dead were women and 12 men.
On Friday, 3,067 new coronavirus cases were reported to have been confirmed in Lithuania. 835 of them were registered in Vilnius, 679 in Kaunas, 335 in Klaipėda, 281 in Panevėžys, 275 in Šiauliai, 186 in Alytus, 169 in Utena, 108 in Marijampolė, 106 in Telšiai and 75 in Tauragė counties.
On Friday, Health Minister-designate Arūnas Dulkys also presented the COVID-19 management plan to the public.
In Lithuania, the 14-day total morbidity rate of COVID-19 has reached unprecedented levels and is already the second in Europe. Our country has surpassed Croatia in these dismal anti-record races and is now only behind Luxembourg. Lithuania ranks 19th in terms of mortality.
New outbreaks of the virus have also been reported. COVID-19 was established for four Franciscan monks in Kretinga, two church employees and a member of their family. As reported, they have no symptoms.
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