A population study on coronavirus is being completed in Lithuania



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“This is the last day of the research, the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee has no longer given us permission to study people. This is all we will investigate, it will be,” said Vytautas Kasiulevičius, a researcher at the VU Faculty of Medicine. , one of the BNS researchers.

Invitations were sent to investigate 13,000. It is planned to halve the number of people to study, about 6.5 thousand. persons.

However, V. Kasiulevičius stated that the activity of the people was less than planned.

“I think it will be about half (the expected number of people – BNS).” … However, we will have enough people from all regions to be able to analyze, “he said.

According to the professor, the first preliminary results of the population survey should be clear on Friday.

The researchers will then analyze the data in detail.

Serological tests for COVID-19 are performed on invited volunteers in a population study. They show antibodies formed in the body. These studies look at human blood.

The investigation began on August 10. Samples are taken from the cities of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and the districts of Ukmergė, Tauragė and Zarasai.

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