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During the last day, 517 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania. In total, COVID-19 has already been registered in the country for 200,884 people.
Currently sick 7117.
Another 10 patients died on Wednesday. The virus has already claimed 3,294 victims in Lithuania.
Incidence of coronavirus infection in the last 14 days 100 thousand. the population reaches 256 cases. This last indicator rose daily.
528 people recovered in the last day. 186,737 people have already recovered from COVID-19.
8,831 people were vaccinated with the first COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
In Lithuania, 189,903 people received the first dose of the vaccine.
2,124 people were vaccinated in the second on Wednesday.
A total of 76,081 people had already received the second dose of the vaccine.
In Lithuania, 265,984 vaccines have already been used.
7537 PCR samples were analyzed during the previous day. A total of 2,114,751 samples have already been analyzed.
Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 827 COVID-19 patients, 88 of them in resuscitation, Statistics Lithuania reported Thursday.
Oxygen is added to 764 patients and 48 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
87 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has affected 200 thousand people. 884 people.
Ten people died last day from COVID-19, ranging in age from 50 to 89, according to data released by the Statistics Department on Thursday.
Three of the deaths each belonged to groups of 80-89 years, 70-79 years, 60-69 years.
One of the deceased was between 50 and 59 years old.
All of these people died in hospitals.
The Statistics Department notes that the number of deaths per day is preliminary and can be replaced with records delayed within a few days.
A total of 3,294 people died in Lithuania from COVID-19. 6594 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
The majority of COVID-19 deaths (1,183 people) were in the 80-89 age group. The three dead were between 20 and 29 years old.
Quarantine mitigation
On Wednesday, the government decided to ease outdoor restrictions: allow open cultural spaces, to meet with five people, allow practical driving training.
As of March 6, it was decided to allow contacts between the two homes in the open air and allow them to hold celebrations in open spaces.
Sports, leisure and outdoor entertainment services will be available for a maximum of five people. It also promotes child care centers.
It is also allowed to provide vehicle test and training services as of March 10.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė told the meeting that the institutions that provide these services are prepared to provide safe driving training services.
“Preparation is and will ensure the safe execution of these actions,” said A. Bilotaitė.
She and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė also raised the issue of mandatory coronavirus testing for startups. According to the prime minister, this could be addressed in the future.
It will be allowed to physically attend to visitors in libraries, as well as to operate educational trails, parks, museums, galleries and other exhibition spaces, zoos and botanical gardens in open spaces in the open air. They will also be open to groups of up to five people or two families.
Events that do not get out of the car and have no more than two people or members of the same family in the car are also allowed.
The government also allowed short visits to prisons.
For those coming to Lithuania, a compulsory exam is required
In a meeting on Wednesday, the government decided that all returnees or arrivals in Lithuania should undergo a COVID-19 test no earlier than three days ago and received a negative response.
This procedure will take effect on March 10.
“All persons returning to or arriving in the Republic of Lithuania on regular, special and charter passenger transport routes (all modes of transport) must have a document (with translation into Lithuanian, English or Russian) about the person not before of the 72 hours. the COVID-19 test carried out during the period prior to the return or arrival in the Republic of Lithuania and the negative result received (the response of the serological antibody tests is not recognized) ”, states the Government’s resolution.
Among other things, passenger companies must “ensure that passengers who do not have a COVID-19 test and no negative test results do not enter the vehicles.”
Vaccination in the capital
Vaccination of people over 70 years of age has started on COVID-19 in Vilnius.
“Vaccination has already started in groups over 70 years old, 17.9 percent of those patients were vaccinated yesterday,” said Viktorija Turauskytė, head of the municipal health department, in a comment sent to BNS.
Based on data from the Department of Statistics, the Municipality of Vilnius states that in this municipality most of the vaccines have been vaccinated with more than 80%. old people. Here, 34 percent received at least one vaccine. from them.
Vilnius is also getting vaccinated at home, with about 250 vaccinated patients.
“Family doctors make a list of older people who have special needs, feel lonely or cannot go to the treatment center. Seniors receive calls from the outpatient clinic they are visiting to discuss whether a vaccination is needed at home. The vaccination team gives advance notice of arrival by phone, so it is not necessary to contact any other place, “says the representative of the municipality.
