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“It seems that we are initiating the third wave of the pandemic. Lithuania’s trajectory has turned upside down in the space of two pandemic indicators and has returned to the old tracks that it was driving in October,” the report issued on Monday reads.
Later, Birutė Stolytė, representative of the Department of Statistics, told BNS that the institution wanted to draw attention to an alarming trend due to the increasing proportion of positive tests.
“Our goal was to get the attention of epidemiologists, who should continue to comment,” said a spokeswoman for the department.
According to the Department of Statistics, the number of new daily cases is no longer decreasing, the proportion (percentage) of positive diagnostic tests is growing.
“This pattern has been going on for a whole week, but now there is no question about it,” the report said.
Incidence of coronavirus infection in the last 14 days 100 thousand. the population reaches 242.9 cases.
The proportion of positive diagnostic tests in the past seven days is 7.8 percent.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has affected 194 thousand people. 333 people.
A total of 3,178 people died in Lithuania from COVID-19. 6,180 deaths have been linked to this infectious disease, directly and indirectly.
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