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The data was obtained by comparing the October-December statistics from the NVSC and the Records Center. Approximately 324 deaths from coronavirus (COVID-19) and 480 deaths from other causes were found, but the deaths were from coronavirus.
Minister A. Dulkys directed the NVSC Director to submit a detailed written assessment of the situation, upon receipt, the necessary action will be taken.
The meeting between the Minister of Health and the head of the NVSC also discussed other important aspects of improving the activities of the NVSC, related to the process of conducting epidemiological surveys, isolation of people at high risk, and adequate allocation of human resources.
Veryga: I really don’t remember such big differences
According to former Minister of Health Aurelijus Veryga, there have also been some discrepancies in the statistics in the past, because the data was sometimes delayed or impossible to collect.
However, he said, if the difference is 800 cases, it can no longer be attributed to high workloads.
“What happened to the data should be explained by the NVSC itself. I realize that there are a few dozen cases that can be lost somewhere, miscalculated, but when there are a few hundred, there are differences of several hundred of deaths, that’s wrong.
There have been data issues in the past, but usually when we commissioned IT professionals to figure it out, they usually caught the extremes and found everything, and there were no big differences. Usually there were days, weeks, something late to sum up and the like. However, I really don’t remember how big differences there would have been, “said A. Veryga.
“It is a very strange situation. We had informed the public that we had contacted the Records Center after noticing information about excess deaths. Justina Petravičienė.
More than 2.5 thousand people are treated in hospitals. COVID-19 patients, 198 in resuscitation
The country’s hospitals are currently treating 2,506 COVID-19 patients, 198 of whom are in resuscitation, Statistics Lithuania said Tuesday.
1,445 patients are treated with oxygen masks and 124 people are given artificial lung ventilation.
Hospitals occupied a total of 7,929 beds out of 16,000. 648.
Of the 681 resuscitation beds, 450 were occupied. Of the 635 beds adapted for pulmonary ventilation, 280 were occupied. Of the 6,361 beds that could be treated with oxygen masks, 2,323 were occupied.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 134,000 people have been infected with COVID-19. 285 people, 65 thousand. 784 – still sick, 66 thousand. 485 – recovered.
A total of 1,347 people died from coronavirus in Lithuania and 669 people died from other causes.
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