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The hospital reported this on its Facebook account:
“After confirmation of COVID-19 infection at Kaunas Clinics Surgery Clinic 11 patients and 2 employees We have taken all necessary steps to stop the spread of the infection and as a result we are suspending the scheduled bedding at the clinics in this building.
An epidemiological study is currently underway and COVID-19 is being tested on all staff and patients working in the building.
Until Monday, October 19. At the profile clinics located in the Central Building of the Kaunas Clinics (Rheumatology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nephrology, Otorhinolaryngological Diseases, ChirurKaunas Clinic, Pneumology, Gastroenterology and Urology Clinics):
– The patient’s planned bed rest is stopped.
– Visiting patients in all Kaunas clinics is prohibited. Patients should only be visited in an emergency with the permission of the head of the department or the doctor on duty. Essential personal items can be delivered to patients through the guard station located in the lobby of the central building.
“Student practices are also suspended in the profile clinics in this building.”
The portal tv3.lt recalls that on Thursday two cases of infection were reported in Kaunas, related to the outbreak in the Department of Neurosurgery of the Kaunas Clinics. One person is a patient and the other is an employee. A total of 6 related cases were registered, of which 5 were patients and 1 employee.
255 new cases
On Thursday 255 new cases of COVID-19 were approved, only 111 of them were registered in Vilnius. Kristina Garuolienė, Deputy Minister of Health, and Loreta Ašoklienė, Head of the Health Promotion Division of the Ministry of Health, provide the latest information on coronavirus control measures.
The National Center of Public Health (NVSC) reports that 255 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania last day. 111 of them were registered in Vilnius counties, 58 Šiauliai, 39 Kaunas, 28 Klaipėda, 7 Panevėžys, 5 Marijampolė, 4 Telšiai and 3 Alytus.
After contact with people confirmed by coronavirus, epidemiologists estimated that 169 people were infected. In addition, 9 import cases were recorded during the last day, of which 4 from Ukraine and 1 each from Germany, Belgium, Poland, Norway and France. At that time, specialists were unable to identify the circumstances of the infection in 77 people.
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