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According to the latest data from the Department of Statistics, the entire country according to the number of new cases of two weeks per 100 thousand. population, entered the first red zone (C1).
According to morbidity, Palanga remains at the top of the list, here the morbidity at two weeks is 100,000. Live reaches 365.4. Klaipėda City, Skuodas District, Kretinga, Šilutė District, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Klaipėda District, Vilnius City and Rietavas continue to align.
Birštonas, Lazdijai district, Ignalina district and Kalvarija municipality are included in the list of red municipalities not according to the number of new cases, but according to the part of the positive tests.
It is recalled that the Lithuanian color system is based on the number of new boxes per 100 thousand. population in 14 days and a proportion of positive tests in 7 days. It was approved in February this year as a quarantine release plan.
A green scenario or is valid when 100 thousand. the population represents less than 25 cases and the proportion of positive tests is less than 4 percent. Scenario B or yellow is divided into B1 when there are 25-50 boxes per 100,000. population, less than 4 percent. positive tests, and B2 when 100 thousand. the population is 50 to 100 cases.
There are also scenarios C or red and D – black, where the number of cases exceeds 100 and 500 cases per 100,000. population.
In the past, these color indicators have been associated with specific restrictions and exemptions, but more recently, government officials have emphasized that the stricter measures will be linked primarily to hospital employment.
They promise more restrictions from next week
As Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys announced on Monday after the Government meeting, the 300 occupied COVID-19 beds would already be a warning sign to take stricter measures. It is true that they would be more aimed at unvaccinated and unvaccinated people.
“We can no longer go back to a situation in which some people lose their usual health and treatment services due to restrictions. Hence the indication that shows us the point at which the overload of the health system begins, that is, occupation of approximately 300 COVID-19 beds.
(…) Of course, we had more in December-January, but that occupation of 300 beds is the indicator that shows that it is difficult for us to treat COVID-19 beds for patients without reducing other services, ”said the Minister of Health.
As the Deputy Minister of Health Aušra Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė announced yesterday, with the increase in the number of patients treated for coronavirus in hospitals, decisions on the introduction of additional restrictions could be made from next week.
Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 150 COVID-19 patients, 19 of them in resuscitation. Compared with the previous day, the number of patients in medical institutions increased.
Oxygen is added to 121 people and eight patients receive artificial lung ventilation. 18 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
346 cases
Last day, 346 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, no new deaths from this disease were recorded, the Department of Statistics reported on Friday.
Number of new cases in 14 days 100 thousand. the population increased to 101.9 and the proportion of positive diagnostic tests per day did not change and remained at 2.5 percent.
The country carried out 5,703 molecular tests (PCR) and 7,234 antigens for the presumed coronavirus on Thursday.
In Lithuania, a total of 282,000 COVID-19 patients have fallen ill since the start of the pandemic. The number of 416 people, of whom are still ill, increased to 2,608 per day.
A total of 4,413 people have died from the disease, with 9,030 deaths directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
More than 15 thousand received the first vaccine yesterday. people
Last day, 20,000 people were vaccinated against the coronavirus. 334 people: 15 thousand. 154 of them received the first dose and 5,180 received the second dose. In the country, COVID-19 has been vaccinated with at least one dose of 1 million vaccines. 400 thousand 452 people, total – 1 million. 232 thousand 984.
At least one dose of the vaccine was 55.6%. more than 80, 70.4 percent. – population between 75 and 79 years old, 73.2%. – 70-74 years of population and 72.4% – population of 65 to 69 years.
In the 55 to 64 age group, 64.2% are vaccinated; in the 45 to 54 age group, 58.9%; in the 35 to 44 age group, 57.5%; in the 25 to 34 age group, 49.9%. 16 – in the 24-year-old group – 48 percent. population. 14.8 percent of children ages 12 to 15 were vaccinated.
Some of these values increased by one or more tenths of a percentage point per day.
In Lithuania, 50.1% have received at least one coronavirus vaccine. people: 0.5 percentage points more than a day before. Counting only adults, 59.6 percent were vaccinated. population.
In total, Lithuania has received 3 million. 517,225 doses of vaccines, of which 2 million were used. 553 thousand 294 doses.
Currently unused more than 963 thousand. vaccine dose.
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