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According to A. Veryga, the situation remains difficult. Indicators of virus spread are deteriorating.
According to the Minister of Health, according to the COVID-19 indicators, Lithuania will be on the list of the so-called red states, that is, those where the situation is most threatening.
The specialists reviewed the processes related to the epidemiological study of outbreaks, informing the population.
As the situation worsened due to the spread of the coronavirus, A.Veryga appealed to the neighbors asking them to reconsider the need to go to the cemetery to visit the graves of their loved ones.
He advised people at risk for chronic diseases to abandon plans to go to the cemetery.
If people continued to ignore the recommendations, the Health Minister asked to avoid contact with other people, wear masks, not meet, etc.
“The advice would be simple: if possible, we will not visit the graves en masse this year,” urged A. Veryga.
You can suggest new restrictions
On Tuesday, the COVID-19 steering committee, according to the Minister of Health, will consider the situation regarding the spread of the infection and evaluate the data.
“I could not say anything concrete today, because some of the measures that have been adopted have recently entered into force. But I would definitely not rule out the possibility that additional ones are offered and, apparently, that they will be more related, if there are any, with places where people gather and that may not be necessary for, let’s say, life ”, pointed out A. Veryga .
Local quarantine is currently being announced in 21 municipalities of the country.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / Quarantine in Vilnius
The Health Minister said there is no possibility that it will be revoked earlier than planned now.
“I certainly would not rule out the possibility that a national quarantine is also issued, because, as he says, there are fewer and fewer municipalities in the yellow or green zone. But that should be decided by the Government. I couldn’t really say for her, “commented A.Veryga.
Beds fill up quickly
According to Ligita Jančorienė, head of the Santara Clinics Infectious Diseases Corps, the flow of COVID-19 patients is very high. Everything possible at the Santara Clinics Infectious Disease Center was filled to capacity Thursday.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Ligita Jančorienė
“There are other open beds in some departments of the Santara clinics, which are also practically filling up, and we are already directing a large number of patients from the Admission Department to the support hospital – Antakalnis Hospital, which opened only this morning, but In the afternoon may the beds were ready in the morning, they will already be full. This situation is really tense ”, emphasized L. Jančorienė.
The doctor urged the public to focus.
There are 415 people in hospitals
Daiva Razmuvienė, Chief Specialist of the Communicable Disease Management Division of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), is currently treating 415 coronavirus patients in hospitals.
There are 35 people in the resuscitation and intensive care units.
Photo by Lukas Balandis / 15min / Daiva Razmuvienė
According to D.Razmuvienė, 156 people are treated with oxygen masks in hospitals, 22 people are given artificial lung ventilation.
The epidemiologist noted that the latest COVID-19 outbreak is the Stonaičiai welfare home in Plungė district. Here 73 cases of infection were identified.
New diseases continue to be registered in educational institutions. A total of 1307 cases of infection were registered here. More than 800 students have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
The infection has also been confirmed in 225 high school students.
Vilnius College / Vilnius College during the coronavirus pandemic
D.Razmuvienė pointed out that most of the young people are sick.
He stressed that the public’s attitude to the difficult situation was worrisome.
The epidemiologist urged people to follow all safety requirements: from wearing masks to keeping their distance.
The virus is spreading across Europe
According to certain COVID-19 indicators, morbidity and mortality, Lithuania outperformed Sweden, which had not introduced quarantine during the first wave.
When asked what mistakes he believed had been made, Veryga said incidence rates in Sweden are also increasing.
AFP / Scanpix photo / Sweden did not restrict the lives of citizens during the pandemic
“And I think we unnecessarily think that there is a safe state in Europe that is somehow miraculously protected from the spread of the disease. I can only remind you that not so long ago our neighbor Latvia had a very small number. And you probably remember, I almost You asked every day what Latvians do to prevent the disease from spreading, and we have it. It was just a temporary thing. If people travel, move, communicate, the disease spreads. It will spread from Sweden, it will spread over all of Europe ”, commented the Minister of Health.
A.Veryga reiterated that the spread of the infection is determined by objective circumstances: the fact that people travel, meet, communicate, celebrate and things like that. Therefore, in his opinion, it is not necessary to look for someone’s mistakes.
How long is the virus viable?
According to L. Jančorienė, there is evidence that the coronavirus does not remain viable for more than 10 days.
Therefore, people with COVID-19 can become infected for up to 10 days. Except in severe forms where the virus can spread for 20 days.
Therefore, guidelines issued abroad indicate that the duration of isolation for people with mild illnesses should be reduced.
According to the latest recommendations, it is not recommended to repeat the molecular test for COVID-19 for three months.
735 new cases
735 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania on Thursday.
181 new cases were recorded in Kaunas, 129 in Klaipėda, 128 in Vilnius, 80 in Šiauliai, 78 in Telšiai counties.
Another 38 cases were recorded in Tauragė 37 – Panevėžys, 31 – Marijampolė, 21 – Alytus and 12 – Utena counties.
7 people died.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / Quarantine in Vilnius
A total of 13,823 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the country.
4,691 people recovered from the disease and 8,918 were ill.
Currently 29,636 people need isolation.
A total of 157 people died from coronavirus in Lithuania.
Another 57 people infected with COVID-19 died from other causes.
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