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Like Thursday afternoon 15 minutes Jolanta Norbutienė, senior specialist, NVSC Tauragė Department Communicable Disease Management Division, said information was received on May 7 about a new case of COVID-19 in Tauragė.
It has been established that the sick person has returned from Russia, he is an employee of a cargo transport company belonging to the age group 51-60.
When he returned to Lithuania, he was isolated on a farm.
Only two close contacts were identified, but there were many more low-risk contacts, totaling approximately 20.
The person who experienced the symptoms of the disease felt on May 5: the temperature rose to a temperature of 39 degrees, the man felt a headache, weakness, established and unspecified signs of gastroenterocolitis.
On May 7, the person was admitted to the Klaipeda University Hospital. At this time, the patient has fever, weakness, headache.
According to J.Norbutienė, a total of 15 cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Tauragė county, 8 of them in Tauragė district.
The number of confirmed cases in Lithuania since the beginning of the epidemic is 1,433. The number of recovered cases is 739. 642 are still ill. 49 people infected with coronavirus have died since the beginning of the epidemic.
In Lithuania, the coronavirus was detected in five people a day, the Ministry of Health (SAM) reported on Thursday. The number of confirmed cases in Lithuania since the beginning of the epidemic is 1,433. The number of recovered cases is 739. 642 are still ill. 49 people infected with coronavirus have died since the beginning of the epidemic.
To date, a total of 164,088 samples have been analyzed for suspected coronavirus. 371 people are isolated.
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