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Another coronavirus case was detected Wednesday in connection with an outbreak at a transport services company in Kaunas, a representative from the municipality reported.
“Based on the data available so far, we have one case, which is tentatively positive in addition to those previously known,” Paulius Keras, head of the Kaunas City Municipality Municipality Emergency Operations Center, told reporters.
“This is a case that involves this company,” he added.
The representative of the municipality of the case and the citizenship of the person do not comment in detail.
This would be the 19th confirmed case of Hegelmann Transport, with coronavirus previously detected in 18 people from Uzbekistan.
According to P. Kero, the investigation of company employees continues, between 160 and 170 of them have already been conducted on Wednesday, and several more are planned to be investigated.
On Wednesday, the Mayor of Kaunas, Visvaldas Matijošaitis, addressed the Head of State Emergency Operations, Minister of Health, Aurelijus Verygas, with a proposal to draft a legal act that would provide mandatory testing of third-country people at checkpoints. motives for coronavirus infection.
It is also proposed to establish an obligation for employers to guarantee adequate accommodation conditions for employees coming to Lithuania from third countries.
According to V. Matijošaitis, such solutions would help to manage the epidemiological situation even more effectively and would contribute significantly to the prevention of similar outbreaks of COVID-19 both in Kaunas and in other municipalities in the country.
Currently, one of the infected people from Uzbekistan is being treated at the Kaunas Clinical Hospital, the others are isolated at the Abromiškės Rehabilitation Hospital.
Public health specialists are currently investigating about 200 employees of the coronavirus transport company, and the disinfection has been carried out at the company’s facilities.
A total of 1,882 cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, 79 people died from COVID-19 and 12 other people infected with coronavirus died of other causes.
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