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A.Veryga said that the information on the occupancy of hospital beds is followed on a daily basis. Of the approximately 17,000 occupied stationary beds, some 10,000 are currently occupied.
Of the 650 resuscitation beds, approximately 370 were occupied. Of the nearly 6,000 beds available for oxygen therapy, nearly 1.9 thousand were occupied. Beds.
According to A.Veryga, the occupation of infectious beds for patients with COVID-19 exceeded 60 percent. There are just over 400 beds of this type in the country.
The Health Minister said that medical institutions have provided figures that could provide 260 additional beds in the near future.
Should the need arise, an additional 590 beds could be used to treat COVID-19 patients in regional hospitals.
According to A. Veryga, the number of other services provided may decrease in those institutions where the number of COVID-19 beds will be expanded. Depending on which department is adapted for coronavirus patients, these services are likely to decline.
As of Monday, the requirement that catering establishments and leisure venues register all customers will come into force.
A.Veryga explained that it was decided that the service provider should record the name, surname and telephone number of each customer.
Signal to big cities
Veryga noted that some large municipalities could “turn red” next week, to be on the list of the most threatening due to the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
It can be accessed from most major municipalities, according to the minister. Among them are the cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai.
Therefore, the exact details will be clear on Friday afternoon.
On Monday, the government will decide whether or not to publish the local quarantine on Monday. If introduced, additional requirements would come into force in those municipalities, for example, regarding the mandatory use of masks, meetings, patient care and the like.
The infection is spreading everywhere.
According to Daiva Razmuvienė, chief specialist of the Communicable Disease Management Division of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), 255 patients are treated in hospitals for COVID-19.
26 people lie in resuscitation and intensive care units, 14 people are given artificial lung ventilation, 94 people are treated with oxygen masks.
D.Razmuvienė noted that 424 new cases of coronavirus cases were recorded in 9 counties.
D.Razmuvienė said that the virus is spreading everywhere: in educational and medical institutions, workplaces and the like. According to her, there is no longer an area where at least one case of COVID-19 would not be confirmed.
If in September there were about 20 percent of untraceable cases, now it is about 28 percent.
On Thursday, coronavirus cases were reported in medical institutions in Kaunas, Šiauliai, Klaipėda and Marijampolė counties.
There is also an increase in the number of educational institutions where the internal spread of the coronavirus occurs.
A resident of Šiauliai County died of COVID-19. He belonged to the age group 88-89 and had comorbidities. It was not possible to determine what caused this person to become infected with the coronavirus.
The number of infected people is growing rapidly.
In recent days, new cases of coronavirus are breaking records.
On Thursday 442 new cases of coronavirus were detected. One person died.
A total of 9,104 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the country. 3,978 people recovered from the disease and 4,956 were ill.
There are currently 30,923 people in isolation.
On Wednesday, the government approved additional measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus: from reducing opening hours and mandatory customer registration in bars and cafes to distance education for seniors..
The Cabinet of Ministers also announced the local quarantine in Elektrėnai, Joniškis district, Jurbarkas district, Kelmė district, Klaipėda district, Kretinga district, Marijampolė, Pasvalys district, Plungė district, Skuodas district, Šiauliai district, Švenčionys district territories and extended quarantine in Raseiniai district.
At the same time, the rules to follow have been determined..
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