In Lithuania, up to 205 new coronavirus cases, two outbreaks, in Klaipeda hospitals



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The National Public Health Center (NVSC) reports that 205 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania in the country’s ten counties on Friday. 64 of them were registered in Šiauliai, 51 in Vilnius, 50 in Kaunas, 14 in Klaipėda, 8 in Telšiai, 7 in Marijampolė, 6 in Alytus, 3 in Tauragė and one in Panevėžys and Utena counties.

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After contact with patients, according to epidemiologists, 143 people became infected. The specialists could not determine the circumstances of the infection in 57 people.

Epidemiological studies have shown that people did not travel abroad and did not interact with confirmed cases of COVID-19. Specialists examine the routes of these infections, so statistics may still change if links are found between individual cases. In addition, 5 import cases were confirmed yesterday, two of which came from Finland, one from Moldova, Belarus and the United Kingdom.

4 cases of outbreaks were confirmed at the Klaipėda Republican Hospital and three cases at the Klaipėda University Hospital (KUL) in Klaipėda County.

The managers of the Republican Hospital Klaipėda had mentioned that the outbreak in this institution was related to technical personnel who had no contact with patients. According to Raimondas Grigaliūnas, Director of the NVSC Klaipėda Department, a technician, a nurse and another person whose functions were not remembered by the interlocutor are infected with KUL.


It is not yet known if KUL has restrictions on these diseases, he said. It has not yet been possible to contact the director of the KUL, Vins Janušonis, and his deputy Eugenijus Zalagėnas. Klaipėda Mayor Vytautas Grubliauskas said on Saturday morning that he had not yet received information about restrictions at this health institution subordinate to the municipality.

Currently, 98 people have coronavirus infection in the port city, 22 in Klaipėda district, six in Palanga, five in Kretinga district, three in Šilutė district and two in Neringa.



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