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Currently, the number of new cases in 14 days is 100,000. the population reaches 116.8 and the proportion of positive diagnostic tests, 2.6 percent.
5,649 molecular tests (PCR) and 6,537 antigens were carried out in the country on suspicion of coronavirus.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has infected 283 thousand people. 016 people, of which 2915 are still ill.
1 deceased belonged to 60-69 years. age group.
A total of 4,416 people have died from the disease to date, with 9,038 deaths directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
The number of red municipalities is now 17
According to morbidity, Palanga remains in the first place on the list of red municipalities, where the morbidity of two weeks is 100,000. Live reaches 371.5. Klaipėda city, Skuodas district, Kretinga, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Šilutė, Klaipėda district, Vilnius city, Kazlų Rūda, Jonava district, Rietavas, Plungė, Lazdijai districts and Kalvarija municipality continue lining up.
Birštonas and Ignalina district are included in the list of red municipalities not according to the number of new cases, but according to the proportion of 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 of 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.
The first dose vaccinated more than 3,000. people
6,000 people were vaccinated against the coronavirus last day. 177 people: 3 thousand. 225 of them received the first dose and 2,952 received the second dose of the vaccine, the Department of Statistics reported Sunday.
In the country, COVID-19 has been vaccinated with at least one dose of 1 million vaccines. 414 thousand. 332 people, total – 1 million. 243 thousand 810.
In Lithuania, 50.6% have received at least one coronavirus vaccine. people.
In total, Lithuania has received more than 3.5 million. vaccine doses, of which more than 2.5 million have been used. dose.
They promise more restrictions from next week
As Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys announced last week 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 Deputy Minister of Health Aušra Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė announced on Thursday, 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.
174 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in Lithuanian hospitals, 24 of them undergoing resuscitation.
Oxygen is added to 137 people and eight patients receive artificial lung ventilation. 33 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
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