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“I certainly would not rule out the possibility of a national quarantine being issued. As the saying goes, there are fewer and fewer municipalities in the yellow or green zone. But the government should decide on that, I really can’t say,” A. Veryga told journalists on Friday.
At the same time, he hinted that new restrictions on where people congregate could wait until next week.
“Once we meet in the COVID-19 Steering Committee on Tuesday to assess the situation, I could not say anything specific, because some of the measures that have been implemented have recently come into effect. But I would definitely not rule out the possibility of additional measures being proposed which, if proposed, will be more related to the places where people gather, which may not be necessary for life, ”said the minister.
In addition, he warned that more cities will remain on the list of red municipalities today, which means that they will also be threatened with quarantine.
“Virus rates continue to deteriorate, we have an exponential increase in the number of infections. Lithuania will undoubtedly be on the list of red countries according to its health indicators and spread of viruses, ”he said.
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The quarantine will threaten more cities
The minister assured that it is certainly not realistic that the municipalities in quarantine end earlier.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Because not only is the situation not improving, it is getting worse. There will definitely be more municipalities on the red list than last week. And we will see an increasingly red map of Lithuania,” he said.
735 new cases
Last day 735 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania. 181 of them were registered 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 deaths were also recorded. This is the highest number of coronavirus deaths reported per day since the start of a pandemic. Two others died from other causes. A total of 157 people have died since COVID-19. Another 57 people died from other causes.
A total of 13 thousand people in Lithuania were infected with the coronavirus. 823 people, 8918 – still ill, 4691 – recovered.
There are currently 29,000 in isolation. 636 people. As of June 1, 396 import cases had been registered in Lithuania.
12 thousand were examined on the last day. 736 samples for suspected coronavirus. So far a total of 1 million have been investigated. 10 thousand 596 samples.
Most of the cases were infected by contact.
Of the new cases, the vast majority were reported when people became infected after contact with people with confirmed coronavirus. At that time, cases where the circumstances of people’s infection are unclear, i. and Epidemiological studies have shown that individuals have not gone abroad, they have not communicated with confirmed cases of COVID-19, registered 138. However, these figures have not yet been reviewed, since not all epidemiological studies have been completed .
In Lithuanian hospitals, 415 people are treated for COVID-19, 35 of them in resuscitation, 176 patients are treated with oxygen masks and 22 people are treated with artificial lung ventilation.
Of the almost 17 thousand. more than 10,000 of all hospital beds are currently occupied. Resuscitation beds are occupied by more than half: 366 of the existing 637.
Of the 572 beds with artificial lung ventilation, 191 are occupied, of the 6.1 thousand. about 1.9 thousand beds were occupied with oxygen.
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