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Last day 6,814 molecular tests (PCR) and 1,052 of antigens were carried out in the country in the face of suspicion of coronavirus. The rate of new illnesses in the last 14 days is 100,000. the population reaches 237.4 cases. The proportion of positive diagnostic tests in the past seven days is 6 percent.
A total of 202,900 people have become ill with COVID-19 in Lithuania since the start of the pandemic.
Statistically, 189,070 people have recovered and are currently alive, with 144,851 recovered. Statistically, there are currently 6,629 people and the declared number of patients is 50,848.
The Department of Statistics considers that a person declared sick has a confirmed case and the end of the disease has not been confirmed by a doctor. A statistically ill person is one for whom illness has been confirmed in the last 28 days. After this period, the person is considered statistically healthy.
According to the department, the statistical rate of patients may be more accurate to assess the morbidity of the population, since among declared patients there may be cases in which a person is no longer ill but the GP has not confirmed the end of the illness. .
A total of 3,341 people died in Lithuania from COVID-19. 6,725 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
The first dose of COVID-19 was administered to 7,585 people last day and the second to 901 people. A total of 218,156 people were vaccinated with the first dose in the country and 86,819 people with both doses.
885 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in hospitals, 96 of whom are in resuscitation.
Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 885 COVID-19 patients, 96 of them in resuscitation, Statistics Lithuania reported on Tuesday.
Oxygen is added to 743 patients and 52 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
61 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
The experts are alarmed. There are many people who want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Lithuania, but there are not enough vaccine supporters to get herd immunity. For their part, President Gitanas Nausėda and former head of the country Dalia Grybauskaitė continue to press for lack of communication, Lithuanians simply lack information about vaccines.
How many Lithuanians would like to be vaccinated?
More than half of the population would be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a study by market and consumer research company NielsenIQ.
According to the company, 36 percent. 23% of those surveyed indicated that they would definitely get vaccinated. – who will be vaccinated soon. Almost 26 percent. 16% of the Lithuanian population surveyed indicated that they would not vaccinate or would not vaccinate soon, another 16%. He said it hadn’t been decided yet.
Surveys in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were conducted online from February 5 to 16, with 1.6 thousand respondents in each country. Population aged 16 to 64 years. The research was carried out online, following the criteria of representativeness according to the age of the population, gender, and type of settlement.
In a press conference on Monday, Asta Ivanauskienė, director of consumer research projects at NielsenIQ Baltics, stated that the population is more encouraged by the negative experience when there were people with coronavirus in their immediate environment.
Among those who indicated they wanted to be vaccinated, a higher proportion of the population were between 45 and 64 years old, from smaller households with two family members, higher income and higher education, and were also more exposed to COVID-19.
“Most worrying is the demographic portrait of those who do not intend to get vaccinated, here we are more likely to meet people between the ages of 25 and 35, which is at the heart of healthy people in our job market. In addition, those people come from larger households with young children and adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16. Those people have lower income, lower education ”, said A. Ivanauskienė.
According to her, the group of vaccine skeptics most often included services, commercial workers, manual workers, the unemployed or homemakers. Individuals were more likely to express more conservative views, indicated that they were less receptive to innovation, and were more likely to be unfamiliar with people with COVID-19 infection.
Offer stuck
The government failed to agree Monday morning on amendments to the law to regulate mandatory testing for dangerous communicable diseases such as coronavirus infection.
“We are postponing this issue until better times and moving on to other items on the agenda,” Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said.
The discussions have been sparked by amendments to the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Act to ensure that persons suspected of being in contact who have been exposed to these diseases are subjected to the necessary examination if they refuse or avoid the tests and endanger the health of others.
Foreign Minister Gabriel Landsbergis opposed this provision.
“Explain what you mean by the word ‘forced’ because it is without human consent. Is there no constitutional contradiction here? I understand that if it is mandatory – a person cannot return to work, cannot work, the company cannot open – it is an obligation, I understand it perfectly, ”said the Minister, emphasizing that he will vote against such a proposal.
Big shipping
The twelfth and largest batch of COVID-19 vaccines from manufacturer BioNTech and Pfizer has arrived in Lithuania, the Ministry of Health (SAM) announced on Monday.
It consists of 31 thousand. 590 doses of vaccine.
It is expected that they will be transported to the vaccination centers of the municipalities from Monday.
According to SAM, COVID-19 vaccination of people with oncological diseases and the elderly population continues in Lithuania.
As the vaccination activity of the population over 80 years of age decreases, the municipalities are moving towards the vaccination of other age groups: people from 75 to 79, from 70 to 74 and from 65 to 69 years.
Not following the rules
Border guards searched more than 2.9 thousand last week. Almost half of them had not previously completed questionnaires from the National Public Health Center (NVSC), the Interior Ministry reported on Monday.
According to the ministry, 2,916 people were inspected last week and 1,363 (46 percent) people were identified who had no confirmation that they had completed the questionnaire in advance, the so-called QR codes.
In total, since February 17, when the control at the Lithuanian-Polish border was renewed, 9828 people were checked, of which 5426 did not have QR codes, they completed the questionnaires at the control places.
