Coronavirus in Lithuania: 1,510 cases were diagnosed, 27 people died, the circumstances of the infection of 162 people are unknown, the virus continues to spread in residences, companies



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Cases recorded in outbreaks

On Monday, outbreak-related infection cases were recorded at the Didvyžiai care home located in Vilkaviškis district (75 cases in total), Skuodas nursing home (37 cases in total), Macikai social residence in Vilkaviškis district Šilutė (53 cases in total), Vilkaviškis Primary Health Care Center (15 cases in total).

Cases of coronavirus infection related to outbreaks were also recorded yesterday at a construction company operating in Alytus, with a total of more than 30 cases of COVID-19 illness in December. There were also cases, according to epidemiologists, related to the outbreak at a sewing company operating in Alytus, where more than 20 related cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in December.

Last day there were also cases of coronavirus infection in connection with outbreaks in a food industry company in Kalvarija, which is associated with a total of 16 cases, and in a sewing company in Vilkaviškis, which is already associated with almost 50 cases of the COVID-19 disease.

In addition, cases of coronavirus infection related to outbreaks have been recorded in the metal processing company operating in Gargždai, furniture manufacturing, railway companies operating in Klaipėda, transportation, food industry companies operating in Šiauliai, the milk processing, packaging and food industry companies operating in Telšiai.

Cases of infection have been recorded in Vilnius, associated with outbreaks in freight forwarding, auto logistics trade, food industry companies, as well as in the metal processing company Ukmergė.

COVID-19 cases were also recorded, according to the evaluation of epidemiologists, related to outbreaks in the Šiauliai kindergarten “Kiškių miškas”, the Vilnius kindergarten “Coliukė”, the Šiauliai fire and rescue board, the Sodra Vilnius branch, as well as the Pravieniškė prison, where 120 cases of infection.

According to currently available data, 97 cases related to outbreaks in families were registered in Lithuania on the last day.

For their part, public health professionals urge people to follow all measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection: hand hygiene, coughing, sneeze etiquette, use of personal protective equipment, physical distance and more. .

People ages 50 to 99 died of coronavirus last day

People ages 50 to 99 died of COVID-19 last day. A total of 17 men and 10 women died.

Among them are eight people in the age group 70-79, seven in the age groups 60-69 and 80-89, as well as three people in the age group 50-59 and two in the age group. from 90-99.

A total of 1996 people died from the coronavirus.

Most of the dead are between 80 and 89 years old – 725, 70-79 – 545, 60-69 – 328, 90-99 – 191, 50-59 – 162, 40-49 – 28, 30-39 – 10, 100-109: five, two people between the ages of 20 and 29 also died.

Almost 2.6 thousand people are treated in hospitals. COVID-19 patients, 196 in resuscitation

Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 2,568 COVID-19 patients, 196 of them in resuscitation, Lithuania Statistics reported Tuesday.

In addition, 1,560 patients were given oxygen and 123 were given artificial lung ventilation.

Of more than 16.6 thousand. more than 8,000 hospital beds are currently occupied. Of the 692 resuscitation beds, 438 were occupied. Of the 647 beds that could be subjected to artificial pulmonary ventilation, 283 were occupied and 2,414 of the 6.4 thousand beds were occupied by oxygen beds.

Operational indicators of the COVID-19 pandemic of the last day

  • Number of new human cases confirmed in the last day: 1,510
  • Total number of confirmed cases in specific individuals: 149,497
  • Number of deaths from Covid-19 on the last day: 27
  • Deaths from Covid-19 were reported the day before with an actual date of death earlier: 19
  • There has been an increase in deaths from Covid-19 during the last day (27 + 19): 46
  • Total number of deaths registered by Covid-19: 1996
  • Number of people recovered in the last day: 3730
  • Number of people who recovered: 81,630
  • Number of people with coronavirus: 65,272
  • Yesterday samples were analyzed for suspected coronavirus: 10138
  • To date, a total of 1,667,965 samples have been tested for suspected coronavirus.

The number of people infected with coronavirus who died from other causes is still in preparation.

This Monday 1,361 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the country, 25 people died per day.

The third company is also reported to have arrived in Lithuania on Monday morning. A shipment of coronavirus vaccines manufactured by BioNTech and Pfizer.

Jurgita Grebenkovienė, chancellor of the Ministry of Health (SAM), said that on Tuesday new doses of the vaccine will arrive at the country’s main hospitals.

“With this second transport (distribution to hospitals – BNS) we will have about 30 thousand. vaccine dose. It is planned to vaccinate all hospitals, their employees, as well as ambulances, patients with the highest risk, ”said J. Grebenkovienė at the session of the Seimas Disability Rights Commission on Monday.

For residents of nursing homes and care the vaccine will arrive in Lithuania next week.

However, according to J. Grebenkovienė, these people will be vaccinated against coronavirus only after antibody tests have been performed. Among other things, it does not rule out the possibility that other groups are not vaccinated in addition to the mandatory tests.



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