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Last day, 1806 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, another 19 people died from COVID-19, it was recognized that 1182 people had been recovered, the Department of Statistics announced on Thursday.
16 of the dead were not vaccinated or were incompletely vaccinated, three were fully vaccinated.
2,577 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine per day. A total of 7.1 thousand people were vaccinated per day. people.
Hospitals are currently treating 1,201 COVID-19 patients, 30 more than the day before, 129 of them in resuscitation.
About 13.3 thousand jobs were carried out in the country on the last day. molecular (PCR) and 10,2 mil. antigen tests for suspected coronavirus.
Hospitals and deaths
Last day, 161 people were hospitalized for COVID-19, 24 more than the day before.
86 patients receive artificial lung ventilation and oxygen is added to 999 people.
During the peak of the pandemic in January this year, the number of patients in hospitals reached 2.6 thousand, leading to a regular reduction in the availability of other medical services.
Five people ages 50-59 and 80-89, four people ages 70-79, two people ages 60-69 and 90-99, and one person 40-49 died on the last day.
One person in the 50-59, 80-89 and 90-99 age groups was fully vaccinated, while the others were either unvaccinated or incomplete.
To date, a total of 4,993 people have died from COVID-19 in Lithuania, of which 111 have been fully vaccinated. 9,882 deaths are directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
Vaccination
To date, at least one dose of the vaccine has been vaccinated in more than 1 million. 744 thousand 818 people, fully vaccinated: 1 million. 611 thousand 973
1555 people received the booster dose last day, a total of more than 26.1 thousand people have been revaccinated so far. people.
In Lithuania, 62.4% have received at least one dose of vaccine. population. Among adults, 72.9 percent are vaccinated. population, and among all people over 12 years of age who can be vaccinated: 70.6 percent.
The lowest proportion of vaccinated children is found among children aged 12 to 15: 28.5 percent. Among the tallest population in the country, 64.9 percent have been vaccinated after the age of 80.
In total, more than 5 million have been received in Lithuania so far. doses of vaccine, just over 3.2 million vaccines were used for vaccination. dose. There are currently more than 1.8 million unused. dose.
Epidemiological situation
Number of new cases of coronavirus in 14 days 100 thousand. the population reached 673.4 and grew by almost twenty points per day. The rate of positive diagnostic tests for seven days rose to 7.6 percent.
In total, almost 331,7 thousand cases of COVID-19 have occurred in Lithuania since the beginning of the pandemic. people, almost 16.3 to 600 more than the day before.
Prime Minister’s Warning
According to Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, if the health system were to stop working due to the increasing number of new COVID-19 cases, the population would have to “calm down for a few weeks.” Still, the Prime Minister hopes that such difficult decisions will be avoided.
“The situation at the hospital is cause for concern. And it seems to me that those people who are willing to take risks, get sick easily, as they imagine, and appear often in those hospital beds, they have to think very well about what they are risking, ”said I. Šimonytė at a wheel of press organized by the Government.
“Most hospitals are not vaccinated, there are many people who are seriously ill and that is a big problem,” he added.
According to the Prime Minister, the mortality of the elderly is also of great concern.
“We remain determined to do what is objectively possible to ensure that as many older people as possible continue to be vaccinated.” But, of course, it is necessary to closely monitor the situation in the hospitals, ”emphasized the Prime Minister.
It spreads unnoticed
With the acceleration of the spread of the delta strain of the coronavirus in Lithuania, more and more people are telling specialists in epidemiological studies that they do not know where they may have been infected.
According to Giedrė Aleksienė, head of the Communicable Disease Management Division of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), acting director, such trends are determined by the characteristics of the delta variety, about 60 percent. greater infectivity, when it takes less and less time to transmit the virus.
“Looking at the data from the last few weeks, we see that about half of the people who have been confirmed with COVID-19 cannot tell where they were infected, in other words, to identify a specific source of infection.
This is seven times more than the part of the case structure that includes cases where the circumstances of the infection are related to educational institutions. In other words, although there has been a lot of talk recently about cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in educational establishments, the data shows that the situation in educational establishments is certainly not dramatic, but simply reflects the spread of the infection in a society that is currently booming Alexei.
The benefits of vaccination for children outweigh the risks.
Although there are more frequent cases of myocarditis in children and young people after being vaccinated against the coronavirus, the benefits of the vaccine still far outweigh the risks, doctors say.
“That risk is very small, but again, I have personally seen three myocarditis that disappeared without any treatment: right after the tests, it was obviously reported to the State Drug Control, but they did not need any treatment,” he said. In a remote discussion, Professor Rimantas Kėvalas, head of the Children’s Disease Clinics at the Kaunas Clinics, said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome that occurs after COVID-19 in children is, according to him, much more dangerous.
“To this day, we still have several hospitals with multisystem inflammatory syndrome that have not only used basic therapy, which is very expensive and aggressive, but also alternative biologics with various drugs and the effect has not yet been achieved,” said the professor. .
According to him, studies in the United States show that the risk of myocarditis after the first vaccination occurs in 2.4 young people per million, and after the second, in 20.4 cases per million.
The gift of vaccines
Continuing to support third countries in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has decided to allocate 50,000 doses of Spikevax, a vaccine produced by Moderna, to Armenia.
Taking into account the request for assistance from Armenia, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania has been entrusted with that October 4 of an existing forward purchase contract or under a forward sale contract concluded in 2020. 25th of October November between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical company Moderna, which plans to buy doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, to allocate 50,000 doses of the Spikevax vaccine for humanitarian aid to Armenia. The transfer of shipments of humanitarian aid to the responsible persons will be organized by the Ministry of Health in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
