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The country underwent 9,527 molecular antigen tests (PCR) and 7,407 per day to detect suspected coronavirus.
The rate of new illnesses in the last 14 days is 100,000. the population reaches 573.1 cases. The proportion of positive diagnostic tests in the past seven days is 6.2 percent.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has affected 249 thousand people. 680 people.
Statistically recovered and currently 224 thousand are alive. 833 people declared 179 thousand. 420 recovered. Statistically, there are currently 15 thousand sick people. 960 people, the declared number of patients reaches 61 thousand. 373.
The Department of Statistics considers that a person who has been confirmed to have a case of disease and the end of the disease has not been confirmed by a doctor as a person declared sick. A statistically ill person is one for whom illness has been confirmed in the last 28 days. After this period, the person is considered statistically healthy.
According to the department, the statistical rate of patients may be more accurate to assess the morbidity of the population, since among declared patients there may be cases in which the person is no longer ill but the GP has not confirmed the end of the illness. .
A total of 3,950 people have died in Lithuania since COVID-19. 7,971 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
1,223 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in Lithuanian hospitals, 138 of them in resuscitation.
In addition, 1,013 patients are supplied with oxygen and 79 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
107 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has affected 249 thousand people. 680 people.
According to the declared data, 61 thousand people are still sick. 373 infected, but it is statistically estimated that 15 thousand should be sick. 960 people.
A total of 3,950 people have died in Lithuania since COVID-19. 7,971 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
Rapid vaccination rates in the education sector
The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports (ŠMSM) points out that approximately 83,000 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 since the return of secondary school graduates and the country’s municipalities to decide whether to return students from the grades 5-11 to contact education Monday. employees of educational institutions, of which about 36 thousand. they are already vaccinated in two doses.
“Employees of educational institutions – 83 thousand. vaccinated, of which 36 thousand. – second generation. Graduates: more than 50 percent. vaccinated, about 5 percent. they are sick.
The second vaccination has already started ”, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports provided the data on Friday in a comment sent to Elta.
ELTA recalls that the Cabinet of Ministers of May 3. decided to return graduates to schools.
Also at Wednesday’s meeting, the government approved an algorithm that would return students in grades 5-11 to schools.
It was decided to return the students to the schools in courses, with the compulsory use of the mixed education chess method, where the class courses are divided weekly into face-to-face and distance education. The final decision on the return of students to schools will be left to the municipalities themselves.
One dose is not enough
On Friday, researchers shared a recent study that says a single dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is not enough to protect a person from new strains of the virus dominating the United States, in addition to those already infected. with the coronavirus.
This is important as more and more Americans choose to forgo a second booster shot.
The journal Science published a study comparing blood samples from people who had never had coronavirus who had been vaccinated with a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine with people who had already had COVID-19 and who were also vaccinated for the first time.
The immunity of the first group to the UK and South African strains was much lower than that of the second group.
