A. Dustys: the health system may not hold out after two weeks

In a remote press conference held after the government meeting on Wednesday, A. Dulkys explained that the situation is such that in the coming days we still have the possibility of some redistribution among the country’s hospitals.

“But I really want to be honest, if we don’t all follow the rules, look for exceptions and continue to build those situations, the system may not be able to handle it in two weeks,” he said.

A. Dulkys said that in the coming days we will continue to see large numbers of people newly infected with coronavirus and dying from this infection.

“It just came to our attention then. They can still be great for two to three weeks. But if we all try to follow honestly from today, encourage others, set positive examples, infect other people with a positive example instead of a virus, I think the situation will change and from the New Year we will begin to see positive changes in our performance. And in a sense, he will be able to motivate all of us then so that everything makes sense ”, said the Minister of Health.

A.Dulkys also noted that all the necessary structures are forming.

“We hope that in the next 24 hours we will be able to form a council of external experts with the Prime Minister, and then in another 24 hours we hope that we can consider our final management plan for COVID-19. Because so far we have only seen our first actions. , which are operational. And the COVID-19 plan will cover all our actions throughout 2021 in detail until the end. We hope that after discussing it with the experts, we can make it public, “said the Minister of Health.

A.Dulkys recalled that 6 agreements have been concluded with pharmaceutical companies in relation to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines. It is planned to buy more than 7 million. doses of vaccines.

It is planned to allocate 65 million. euros. Also the draft state budget for next year provides for another 80 million. euros for the purchase of various equipment, tests, logistics.

Terrifying numbers

The highest number of new coronavirus cases was recorded in Lithuania on Tuesday – a total of 3,418 cases..

Up to 44 people died. One of them is less than 50 years old. The number of COVID-19 deaths per day is also the highest since the start of the pandemic.

A total of 99,869 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the country.

43,379 people have already recovered, yesterday 1,622 and 55,143 are sick.

During the day yesterday 13,628 samples were examined. The majority, almost a thousand new cases, were confirmed in Vilnius county.

Hospitals treat 2,307 coronavirus patients, 184 of them in resuscitation.

1256 patients need oxygen, 124 people receive artificial lung ventilation.

Strict quarantine

Lithuania is currently one of the countries most affected by COVID-19 in Europe. In response, the government extended the quarantine regime for COVID-19 until January 31 and tightened its conditions.

The new restrictions have already come into effect. Read more about them – here.

The new restrictions apply to all people living in Lithuania; there are no exceptions not even for those who have already had COVID-19 and are not currently threatening themselves or others.

As of Wednesday, with the entry into force of the inter-municipal travel ban, the Vilnius Municipality has announced that it will close or control more than 30 entrances to the city.

Klaipeda and Kaunas It also reported specific blocked sites, the Vilnius Municipality does not intend to do so to prevent attempts to circumvent the bans.