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This was confirmed to LRT Radio on Thursday morning by Urine Ivanauskienė, Chief of the Infectious Disease Management Division of the Kaunas Department of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), portal lrt.lt announces.
According to her, both people were infected in Lithuania by long-distance drivers from Uzbekistan.
According to O. Ivanauskienė, the infected driver returned to Lithuania on June 30, but lived in the same hotel-like facilities as Uzbek citizens, had contact with the first Uzbek who fell ill.
One of the infected Lithuanians is being treated at the Kaunas Clinical Hospital.
The outbreak was reported to the Kaunas transport company on Tuesday. The company has previously confirmed 19 cases of coronavirus. Currently, samples for COVID-19 were taken from Hegelmann Transport’s 200 employees in Kaunas.
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.
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