Stankūnas – on the second wave: we have an uncontrolled spread in Europe



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Professor Mindaugas Stankūnas, Department of Health Management, School of Public Health, LSMU, said he has a unique opportunity to speak with members of the Seimas about this pandemic.

“If you see slides, the world has been living with Covid-19 for a year. It travels as a ‘tourist’. (…). It traveled the world and came back to Europe. We have an uncontrolled spread in Europe.”

According to him, this is a large increase in infection, the cause of death from coronavirus in the world is ranked 12-13, but it should soon reach 10th in the number of deaths.

“Initially there were many cases in the elderly group, but now there is another trend, the youngest are also sick. Although the number of cases is high, mortality itself has been significantly reduced. Today, 999 cases were detected in Lithuania and we have more than 13 thousand cases. the number of people who are sick but are audible shows only a certain degree of spread of the disease. Our serological tests have shown that many more people have actually been sick. “

“For those people who had antibodies, 2/3 of them didn’t even feel really sick. As a result, the prevalence is much higher, “he said.

The quarantine has been re-announced, in his opinion, indicating so far that basketball is played in a single basket. Also, he said, people were really closed during the first peak.

“Will that happen again now? We health professionals believe that it needs to be communicated very strongly.”

About 5 percent are treated in the hospital, said the professor. of all the sick. He also said that a commission created by the president is working and looking for solutions by sacrificing his free time, even late at night.

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