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The National Center for Public Health (NVSC) says that the fluctuations observed in certain indicators are a continuation of the second wave of coronavirus.
“According to experts, although fluctuations are observed in certain epidemiological indicators, a continuation of the second wave is still visible,” said the comment sent to BNS on Monday.
The Department of Statistics warned this Monday that the third wave of the spread of the coronavirus in the country is currently beginning.
“It appears that we are initiating the third wave of the pandemic. The Lithuanian trajectory turned around in the space of two pandemic indicators and returned to the old tracks, which were boosted in October,” the department said in the report.
According to him, the number of new daily cases is no longer decreasing, the proportion (percentage) of positive diagnostic tests is growing.
Public health experts, for their part, say the recent decline in the number of cases may be due to “the decline in laboratory tests, so the situation should be viewed with caution.”
Incidence of coronavirus infection in the last 14 days 100 thousand. the population reaches 242.9 cases. Meanwhile, 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.
Author Augustas Stankevičius
