There are hundreds of COVID-19 outbreaks in Lithuanian educational institutions, thousands of people have been isolated



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According to Monday’s data from NVCS, 1,354 cases of infection are associated with the aforementioned active outbreaks, of which 88 percent. there are primary cases, that is, when children or workers are infected, the rest are family members.

Most are cases in schools, another around 12 percent. Coronavirus infections are registered in kindergarten.

According to the NVSC, a total of 5,152 high-risk people have been or have been isolated as a result of these outbreaks, which are specifically related to these outbreaks. Another 1,145 people were estimated to have had a low-risk exposure.

“97 percent. These outbreaks occur when fewer than ten related primary cases are recorded. In other words, most outbreaks are not numerical. We have only recorded two outbreaks, in which the number of related primary cases exceeds 20. One of those outbreaks was registered in a school that operates in Skuodas, the other in a school that operates in the Radviliškis district, ”Justina Petravičienė, representative of the center, reported BNS.

According to the center, when assessing the distribution of the outbreaks in the regions, most of them were registered in Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai counties.

In Lithuania, the number of coronavirus cases in two weeks was 100,000. Lithuania leads the European Union in terms of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19.

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