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According to data provided by the Department of Statistics on Thursday, there were 13 red municipalities left, all the others in the worst black epidemiological zone.
At the moment, the district municipality of Švenčionys, the district municipality of Ignalina, the district municipality of Rokiškis, the district municipality of Kupiškis, the city and district of Panevėžys and the district municipality of Raseiniai remain in the red zone. .
Also Širvintos district, Kaišiadorys district, Birštonas municipality, Kazlų Rūda municipality, Varėna district municipality and Kalvarija municipality.
The worst epidemiological situation persists in the Joniškis district municipality. Here 100 thousand. 2,054 cases per population in 14 days. It is the only one in the country’s municipality, exceeding 2,000 100 thousand. population per case of 14 days.
The best epidemiological situation remains in the municipality of the Panevėžys district, here 100 thousand. population for 21 days in 218 cases.
2,182 new cases of COVID-19, 18 people died
Last day 2,182 new cases of COVID-19 were identified, 18 people died, the Department of Statistics said Thursday.
Among deaths from COVID-19, fewer than 14 people were either unvaccinated or vaccinated.
Last day, 2,086 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine. A total of 6,306 people were vaccinated per day.
Hospitals are currently treating 1,387 people with COVID-19, several dozen more than the previous day, 125 of them in resuscitation.
16,2 thousand jobs were carried out in the country on the last day. molecular (PCR) and 9.2 thousand. antigen testing for suspected coronavirus.
Hospitals and deaths
171 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 on the last day, nearly twenty more than the day before.
Artificial lung ventilation is provided to 77 patients, with an additional oxygen supply to 1,166 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.
During the previous day, the highest number of deaths was registered in the 60-69 age group: seven, five more in the 70-79 age group, three in the 80-89 age group, two in the 50 age group. to 59 years, and one in the age group of 90 to 99 years.
Four of them were fully vaccinated, aged between 60 and 89 years.
So far, a total of 5,158 people have died from COVID-19 in Lithuania, of which 142 have been fully vaccinated. 10.1 thousand people are directly and indirectly associated with COVID-19. deceased.
Vaccination
To date, at least one dose of the vaccine has been vaccinated in more than 1 million. 758 thousand people, fully vaccinated: around 1 million. 628 thousand.
1,399 people received the booster dose last day, a total of 34.3 thousand people have been revaccinated so far. people.
In Lithuania, 62.9% have received at least one dose of vaccine. population.
The lowest proportion of vaccinated is found among children aged 12 to 15 years: 28.9 percent. Among the oldest population in the country, 65.4 percent have been vaccinated after the age of 80.
In total, more than 5.1 million LTL have been received in Lithuania so far. vaccine doses, a little over 3.2 million doses. Currently, those not used are approximately 1.9 million. dose.
Epidemiological situation
Number of new cases of coronavirus in 14 days 100 thousand. population reached 852.6 cases. The rate of positive diagnostic tests at seven days was 9.6 percent.
In total, more than 345 thousand cases of COVID-19 have fallen ill in Lithuania since the beginning of the pandemic. people, of which almost 20,3 thousand are still ill.
The government did not approve the mandatory vaccinations and a proposal to test the employee’s funds was presented to the Seimas.
The government is proposing to the Seimas to adopt amendments so that employees in certain areas who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus pay for tests on their own.
The proposal to introduce compulsory vaccination for certain work areas, previously included in the agenda of the government meeting, was not upheld.
“The government is empowered to approve the list of jobs and areas of activity in which employees can work periodically for COVID-19 testing, which will undergo periodic testing for unvaccinated and relapsing COVID-19, and these tests preventive measures are currently under budget – that from now on health screenings due to contagious disease would no longer be financed from the state budget, but, I would like to emphasize, with the employee, and if the employer so decides , with employer funds, ”said Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys.
“There are two exceptions when medical check-ups are still budgeted: when an employee cannot be vaccinated due to medical contraindications or the availability of vaccines is not ensured,” said the minister.
On Wednesday, the government approved a bill of this type on prevention and control of communicable diseases in humans, which will be presented to the Seimas, which will make a final decision. The Government proposes that the Seimas consider the amendments urgently.
It is proposed that this procedure enter into force on December 1.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, who later presented the government’s proposal at a press conference, said that the taxpayer-funded tests for unvaccinated people were understandable when there were not enough vaccines in the country, and that currently free vaccination would be ” difficult to explain and justify. ” .
“The tests, which are currently paid for in various professions with taxpayer money, would be paid for with taxpayer money as of December 1 only if the person is unable to get vaccinated for medical reasons or in an unpredictable situation where the state can not provide the amount of vaccines. “, – said I. Šimonytė.
According to her, tests for currently unvaccinated workers “cost taxpayers tens of millions of euros and can be justified in the absence of alternative pandemic management tools, namely vaccines.”
“Now that vaccines are available to absolutely everyone and absolutely everywhere, (the budget evidence) is really difficult to explain and justify,” the prime minister said.
The head of government pointed out that if the amendments were adopted by the Seimas, they would take effect on December 1, so that people who have not been vaccinated so far will have time to be vaccinated with the full scheme.
The issue of mandatory vaccinations of workers in certain areas was added to the agenda of the government meeting earlier this week, but was dropped.
The project proposed that workers who carried out activities, whose list should be approved by the Government, could only work after vaccination, unless the worker could not be vaccinated due to medical contraindications, had a contagious disease or did not have access to vaccines .
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