Great differences: morbidity in the country’s municipalities varies tens of times

In Lithuania, the total incidence of coronavirus on January 4 is 395.3 100 thousand. population in the last 14 days.

Huge differences

The best indicator in the whole of Lithuania is registered in the municipality of Rietavas, where the incidence is 55.1 cases per 100 thousand. population in 14 days.

According to the quarantine scenarios approved by the Government’s Council of Independent Experts, quarantine scenario B could already exist there.

This municipality has little left even before quarantine scenario A, it must be achieved when morbidity reaches less than 25 cases per 100,000. population in 14 days.

However, the situation is quite different, for example, in the district municipality of Visaginas. Morbidity is the highest in Lithuania: 909.9 cases per 100 thousand. population in 14 days.

Incidence between the municipalities with the best and worst performance several dozen times.

Based on the quarantine scenario, this is the worst quarantine scenario D.

The Šilalė district (105 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days), the Jurbarkas district (108.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days), as well as the municipality of Kalvarija (117.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants) they can also boast of a good epidemiological situation. within 14 days). These municipalities are quite close to quarantine scenario B.

The situation is especially unpleasant in several other municipalities in the country. In the Rokiškis district municipality, the incidence is 815.8 cases per 100 thousand. population in 14 days. The Lithuanian average is also exceeded by the Biržai district municipality (660.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days), the Ukmergė district municipality (618.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days) and the municipality of the Mol detai district (618 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). in 14 days). population in 14 days).

“Green areas” appear

On February 2, the government data analyst Aistis Šimaitis announced in the data review that the number of municipalities with up to 5 cases per day in 7 days continues to increase: we now have 24 cases and in 18 more cases the number does not exceed 10 cases. per day.

At the elderly level, “green areas” also appear in Lithuania, where no new cases have been registered in 14 days.

The situation in the main cities also varies

The situation is also different in the main cities of the country. The worst situation in Klaipeda, morbidity still exceeds 500 cases per 100 thousand. population within the 14-day threshold (503.6).

A slightly better situation in Vilnius, according to data from Thursday, 100 thousand. population registered 483.1 cases in 14 days.

The situation is a little better in Panevėžys. Here 100 thousand. 461.1 cases per population in 14 days.

The number of cases in Kaunas per 100 thousand. population less than 400 (389.5) in 14 days.

The best situation in Šiauliai. Here 100 thousand. population for 14 days in 283.7 cases.

The mechanism promises to be delivered next week

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė announced at a government meeting on Wednesday that next week, along with the quarantine mitigation scheme, quarantine mitigation mechanisms could be approved in individual municipalities across the country.

“If we succeed at the end of this week or next Monday, a plan will be prepared for municipalities that are rapidly” going green “or would like to do so. Under what conditions could the liberation take place more territorially than in the beginning of activities? ”Said I. Šimonytė at the government meeting.

Delphi recalls that last week the mayor of the Jurbarkas district, Skirmantas Mockevičius, spoke publicly about the idea of ​​releasing the quarantine in those municipalities where the epidemiological situation is significantly better than in Lithuania as a whole.

This was also discussed at the remote meeting of Prime Minister I. Šimonytė and the mayors of Lithuanian cities on Monday. He discussed the possibility that municipalities where the number of new COVID-19 cases is extremely small allow certain contact activities to resume faster than in Lithuania as a whole.

“More and more municipalities where the number of diseases is approaching zero or has already reached it, some of them are next to each other, therefore, the possibility of allowing them to release certain contact activities faster than it will be done in Lithuania. Be considered. This would involve testing and control. Access to these municipalities will continue to be restricted, “Prime Minister I. Šimonytė said.

At the meeting it was agreed that a group of experts convened by the Government in the near future together with the Association of Municipalities of Lithuania will discuss the details of this possible mechanism.