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Last day, 596 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania. A total of 203,992 people have already registered with COVID-19 in the country. Currently suffers from 6594.
Another 9 patients died on Wednesday. The virus has already claimed 3,363 victims in Lithuania.
Incidence of coronavirus infection in the last 14 days 100 thousand. the population reaches 233.2 cases.
652 people recovered in the last day. 190,131 people have already recovered from COVID-19.
The first dose of the vaccine was administered to 12,031 people on Wednesday.
The second dose of the vaccine was received by 2,471 people on Wednesday.
In Lithuania, 241,105 people received the first dose of the vaccine.
A total of 90,760 people would have received the second dose of the vaccine.
In Lithuania 331,865 vaccines have already been used.
On the last day 8030 PCR samples were analyzed. A total of 2,160,930 samples have already been analyzed.
Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 749 COVID-19 patients, 84 of them in resuscitation, Statistics Lithuania reported on Wednesday.
Oxygen is added to 700 patients and 59 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
109 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
Nine people died from COVID-19 last day, ranging in age from 70 to 99, according to data released by Statistics Lithuania on Wednesday.
Six of the dead were between 70 and 79 years old, one between 80 and 89 years old and two between 90 and 99 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 3,363 people died in Lithuania from COVID-19. 6777 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
The majority of COVID-19 deaths (1204 people) were in the 80-89 age group. The four dead were between 20 and 29 years old.
The issue of vaccination of the members of the Seimas
Former Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis proposes to vaccinate politicians against the coronavirus so that the Seimas can sit live, the president of the Seimas, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, urge to wait in line.
“Maybe it makes sense that members of the Seimas who want, as well as members of the government, are vaccinated and that we can work live,” Skvernelis said in plenary on Wednesday.
According to him, teleworking “is a great tool for emergencies”, but he called for “a return to normal parliamentary work.”
Skvernel said he was making the proposal without personal interest, since he had already been vaccinated as a member of the risk group. As Prime Minister, S. Skvernelis was treated and later announced that he had overcome cancer.
The Seimas met live for the first plenary session of the spring session, but next week, by decision of the Seimas Board, it will sit remotely. The opposition is against opposition to teleworking, saying it would make it easier for those in power to restrict minority rights.
Both the president of Seimas and the prime minister urged politicians to wait for people at risk to be vaccinated and to set an example for other institutions through teleworking.
“Regarding the vaccination of Seimas members, I think there are still many vulnerable groups that are waiting for vaccination and we must look at the bigger picture and not rush to overtake those who most need vaccination now,” said V Čmilytė-Nielsen .
Additional vaccinations
President Gitanas Nausėda says he has received confirmation from the President of the European Commission that an additional 4 million have been agreed. Delivery of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to EU countries. According to the head of state, 24.6 thousand of them should arrive in Lithuania in March. dose.
“Good news from the EU negotiations with vaccine manufacturers. EC President Ursula von der Leyen informed me today that an agreement has been reached on an additional € 4 million. The doses of the Pfizer vaccine -BioNTech will be delivered to EU countries later this month. For Lithuania, this means 24.6 thousand doses in the third and fourth week of March higher than previously expected. Vaccine supply will grow exponentially from April, so we must be ready for a mass vaccination without problems throughout Lithuania soon, ”announced G. Nausėda on Facebook on Wednesday.
Mandatory tests
On Wednesday, the government approved amendments to the law that would force workers in certain areas to undergo periodic testing for COVID-19.
Amendments to the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Act will be submitted to the Seimas.
It is also proposed that in the event of an outbreak in the workplace, workers can also work only after they have been tested for disease. The National Center for Public Health will determine the list of personnel to be examined.
In the event that an employee refuses to be inspected on time without good reason, the employer would be obligated to fire him and not pay him or telecommute until the date of the inspection.
Spread of mutations
Examination of more than 500 samples revealed 30 cases of mutations in the “British” coronavisur, the National Public Health Laboratory (NSAID) reported.
17 of them were detected in the laboratory of the Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, eight – in the laboratory of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, three – in the laboratory of the Santara Clinics of the Vilnius University Hospital and two – in the laboratory of the Vilnius University Center for Natural Sciences.
Of all the identified cases, eight are from Marijampolė county, seven from Telšiai, six from Vilnius, two from Klaipėda and Utena counties, and one case from Kaunas, Tauragė, Šiauliai, Jurbarkas and Alytus counties.
