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The Ministry of Health should provide more detailed information around noon.
The Department of Statistics reports that 1,169 new cases have been identified.
According to the latest official data, a total of 48 thousand people have been identified in Lithuania. 226 cases of COVID-19, 36 thousand are still sick. 644, recovered – 11 thousand. 32 people.
392 patients died from COVID-19 and another 158 died from other causes.
On Monday, 1,192 new COVID-19 cases and 6 deaths were reported in Lithuania per day.
According to Minister Aurelius Veryga, these days a peak of illness must be reached. “This week will be critical,” Veryga said. According to the minister, it will be proposed to continue the quarantine until December 16. According to the current ruling, the quarantine was introduced until November 29.
The interim government approved this Monday the proposal of the Ministry of Health to acquire 1.4 million. doses of coronavirus vaccines from the pharmaceutical company CureVac.
UK-based pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford reported that the efficacy of their jointly developed vaccine against COVID-19 ranged from 62 to 90 percent, depending on the dose received by patients. The average effectiveness of these vaccines is less than rivals AstraZeneca, Pfizer and BioNTech, as well as the vaccines developed by Moderna, which were more than 90% effective. Although the effectiveness of the Oxford vaccine may be somewhat lower, it has other advantages: it is cheaper, it is easier to store and transport because it does not require such a low temperature.
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