Coronavirus crisis: key news from Thursday



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Spread of the virus. 19 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Lithuania per day, which is the highest number of confirmed daily infections in the last month. Six of them are related to the fireplace in the Santara clinics, three – with the celebration in Kernavė, two cases – imported from Poland, one is related to the fireplace in the Clinical Hospital of the Vilnius city. Health professionals are concerned that one of the infected employees of Santara’s clinics has visited the gym.

In the neighborhood. Poland has announced that it will open its borders to Lithuanians starting on Saturday, and Belarus has removed Lithuania from the list of countries whose citizens must be isolated for two weeks upon arrival. Two new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Latvia, seven in Estonia, 801 in Belarus, and 8,779 in Russia. The spread of the virus is also accelerating in Ukraine, where 689 cases per day have been detected, more than ever.

Public consultation Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga announced that a study is scheduled to start in July to find out what part of the population has already acquired immunity from a coronavirus.

Help the Armenians. The Lithuanian government has decided to send a medical team to Armenia this month to help it fight the coronavirus. Eight doctors, a logistics specialist, and an operations manager can leave for Armenia for two weeks starting next week.

Money for rehabilitation. The Ministry of Health has promised to pay for medical rehabilitation services, sanatorium treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation and in cases where the institutions have not provided these services due to quarantine.

Foreign:

* The European Commission has called on the Schengen States to remove internal border controls by June 15.

* The virus is spreading rapidly in Latin America. More than 70 thousand have already registered here. deceased. More than half of them are in Brazil, where hospitals are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the influx of patients. The pandemic is also gaining momentum in Africa. According to the World Health Organization, 100,000. The number of infections in Africa was reached in 98 days and doubled in just 18 days.

* German airline Lufthansa has announced plans to fire 22,000 staff of the coronavirus pandemic reduced demand for travel.



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