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Two more employees of the Antaviliai pension were infected with coronavirus, the National Center for Public Health told BNS.
“Two of the three newly identified cases were registered at the Antaviliai pension,” Ginreta Megelinskienė, director of the Infectious Disease Management Division of the Vilnius Department, told BNS.
According to her, it is still unclear how the women became infected and with whom they had contact.
“An on-site evaluation is currently underway,” said G. Megelinskiene.
As Birutė Šarakauskienė, Deputy Director of Antaviliai Pension, told BNS, both employees worked and lived on the premises of the institution, therefore they were unable to transmit the virus outside the institution.
“They have been working since April 28 in a mode where they live and work in a specific department. (…) We can only assume that some residents are infected and have become infected because they have not left,” said the representative of the institution.
“The population has been tested, but there is an incubation period, so the test could have been negative,” he added.
When asked if it could not be the case that the employees themselves were ill, but, like the residents, the tests showed negative responses, B. Šarakauskienė rejected this option.
“They had no contact with the sick, employees who had no contact were selected,” he said.
B. Šarakauskienė says that the women felt the first symptoms on Thursday.
“Yesterday they felt symptoms, those symptoms were not very pronounced, but they did occur, so they called an ambulance and took them to the Santara clinics,” said a spokeswoman for the facility.
According to her, the infected workers had contact with 5 people who are currently under investigation.
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