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Number of confirmed cases in specific people: 1444
Number of sick people: 563
Number of new COVID 19 confirmed yesterday: 8
Number of deaths from COVID 19: 49
Coronavirus deaths from other causes: 4 4
Number of people who recovered: 828
Number of people in isolation: 268
NVSC: the 8 cases – outbreaks in healthcare and nursing homes
The eight new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Lithuania come from health care and nursing institutions that have become outbreaks of the virus, epidemiologist Daiva Razmuvienė, a doctor at the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), said on Saturday.
“Where the chimneys were opened, those chimneys are still a little rotten,” he told BNS.
Of eight new cases, three were detected in Vilnius: two new cases were confirmed for employees of the Antaviliai pension, one for a patient at the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, who was lying in the Internal Medicine Department.
Four new cases were identified at the Kartena Maintenance and Nursing Hospital, reported by the NVSC on Friday: coronavirus was detected in self-insulated workers.
In Kaunas, a coronavirus was detected in an employee of the Department of Therapy at the Republican Hospital of Kaunas.
According to D. Razmuvienė, all these cases are from previously identified foci.
“They are the same as warned,” he said.
SAM recalls that from now on, anyone who develops symptoms of an acute respiratory infection can be screened for a possible infection.
Ten municipalities – Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys, Marijampolė, Tauragė, Telšiai, Alytus, Utena – already have mobile points for patients to be tested for the new coronavirus.
People who have reached mobile points independently and do not have an SMS with the instructions of the coordinator will not be accepted.
As a reminder, you can verify that you have not been in the same places as people infected with the coronavirus in the results table of the epidemiological study of COVID-19 cases.
Also in Lithuanian municipalities, doors should be opened soon, and in some of the so-called fever clinics, where more detailed examinations of patients with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection on suspicion of coronavirus infection will be carried out. These clinics will register patients with a referral from a family doctor who will need to arrive at a specific time assigned to them.
SAM urges people to follow the instructions of doctors and institutions, that is, avoid meeting people as much as possible, be able to work from home, stay away from each other in communication, pay special attention to hands, the surface hygiene and others. If you experience symptoms of the disease, seek medical help, do not go to medical institutions yourself.
Key information about coronavirus
Coronavirus is a virus with a new structure that has never caused human infections before. Its main symptoms are similar to those of the flu: fever, cough, shortness of breath and other respiratory problems. In more severe cases, coronaviruses cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, or death.
According to March 28. COVID infection is now defined as follows: a person with an acute respiratory infection (sudden onset of at least one of the following symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath) AND no other etiologic cause has been identified to explain these symptoms AND within 14 days for The onset of symptoms traveled or lived in areas where there is a local spread or co-spread of COVID-19 disease (coronavirus infection).
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A person with symptoms of an acute respiratory infection AND has been in close contact with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 disease (coronavirus infection). In addition to the suspected cases, laboratory tests for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) will be performed for these categories of subjects (this category of people is tested for COVID-19 (coronavirus) infection)):
1) A person with a severe acute respiratory infection (fever and at least one symptom of respiratory illness: cough, shortness of breath) AND requiring hospitalization AND no other etiologic cause has been identified to explain these symptoms.
2) Health professionals.
3) Other people who have symptoms of an acute respiratory infection. It is considered a probable case: a case for which the 2019-nCoV test is unclear or for which the test was positive after a pan-coronavirus evaluation. A confirmed case is a person with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 disease (coronavirus infection), regardless of the clinic and symptoms.
The SAM order stipulates that all persons returning from abroad are subject to a 14-day quarantine.
In the event that the symptoms of the disease do not develop during the 14-day isolation period, the person is considered healthy and can return to normal life.
There is no specific treatment for the new coronavirus infection, only symptomatic treatment. Patients can be completely cured, depending on their condition and when treatment is started.
To avoid the coronavirus, it is recommended to follow the general rules of hygiene: wash your hands with warm soapy water, disinfect your hands, sneeze and label the cough, ventilate the facilities at least 2-3 times a day, clean daily the surfaces of frequent use in the room (for example, night clubs). tables, bed bases and other bedroom furniture).
People who work remotely from home and avoid social contact so as not to endanger their health are recommended to choose places to stay outdoors where it is possible to maintain a safe distance of approximately 2 meters (for example, private patio , forest, park, etc.).
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