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The Institute of Hygiene announced Thursday that 3,320 people died from COVID-19 in the first half of this year. This figure does not match the one published by Statistics Lithuania. According to the Department of Statistics, 2,547 people died from COVID-19 in the first half of the year.
Institute of Hygiene: the analyzed data is presented
Rūta Ustinavičienė, head of the Death Registry at the Institute of Hygiene, explains that the published data differ because the Institute of Hygiene provides the number of deaths already analyzed. According to R. Ustinavičienė, the Institute of Hygiene follows the rules of coding the medical death certificate of the World Health Organization (WHO). Other countries trust them too.
From the medical death certificate, the main cause of death is statistically selected, that is, the disease that caused the chain of pathological conditions that directly caused death.
“Statistics Lithuania calculates COVID-19 deaths from the leading cause of death line on the medical death certificate before coding and selecting the leading cause of death according to WHO guidelines.
On the medical death certificate, COVID-19 is sometimes written not on the leading cause of death line, but on other lines (direct or intermediate cause of death) or other major pathological conditions that caused death, so Therefore, the numbers differ. , ”Tv3.lt explains R Ustinavičienė.
According to the specialist, the data from the Department of Statistics are more operational and those from the Institute of Hygiene are more accurate.
R. Ustinavičienė says that various methods can be used for the presentation of operational data in different countries. However, the final annual statistics, which are provided in the Eurostat, WHO, OECD databases, are processed according to the same principle as in the State Register of Deaths and their Causes of the Institute of Hygiene.
“The registry, like other European countries, collects official statistics on causes of death in accordance with the 2011 April 5 European Commission Regulation No. 328/2011, the coding rules of the medical death certificate specified in the methodological guidelines According to the WHO, the cause of death part of the medical death certificate complies with the standard recommended by the WHO. Therefore, the final annual statistics are comparable between other countries, “says R. Ustinavičienė.
Lithuania statistics: we publish operational statistics
Laima Grižaitė, head of the Lithuanian Statistics Dissemination and Communication Division, also ensures that the data published by the Lithuanian Institute of Hygiene and Statistics should not coincide, as different methodologies are used to calculate deaths.
“The Institute of Hygiene does its job, reviews the e-health records and questions some of them. What does Statistics Lithuania do? We publish operational statistics. This means that we do not have time to investigate and examine all cases in which a person died. As a result, three variants were chosen, three definitions of death, ”explains L. Grižaitė on tv3.lt.
The first definition is the narrowest. These are cases where doctors cite two death codes as the cause of death, indicating that the person died from COVID-19.
The second definition is when the two aforementioned death codes are supplemented with additional information related to COVID-19, but do not include external deaths such as drownings, homicides, accidents, etc.
The third definition is that when a person had a COVID-19 record, they could have recovered, but died within 28 days after the record appeared.
“In a broad sense, according to the third definition, we count and provide them promptly, on a daily basis. The Institute of Hygiene needs to review, question some cases and have another number. We currently have four numbers. Three from the statistics, one from the Institute of Hygiene. There is a certain disadvantage that these figures are not harmonized with each other, perhaps the data could go back from the Institute of Hygiene to electronic health and be revised, then it would be revised in the statistics that we provide ”, says L. Grižaitė.
L. Grižaitė claims that the true reason why a person died could only be found after their death by conducting an autopsy and a COVID-19 study. All the dead should be examined, which would take time.
According to L. Grižaitė, the Institute of Hygiene reviews all death data, diagnostic cards and provides information according to another classification.
According to the Institute of Hygiene, 3,320 people died from coronavirus in the first half of this year. The highest number of deaths this year was recorded in January (1,270 people died from this infectious disease, the lowest) in June, when 149 people died.
1,300 new cases were confirmed
The tv3.lt portal recalls that 1,300 new cases of COVID-19 were detected last day, eight people died, according to data from the Department of Statistics published this Thursday.
Five of the eight deaths were either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
3608 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine. A total of 9,328 people received at least one dose a day.
Currently, 869 people are being treated for COVID-19 in hospitals, 84 of whom are in resuscitation. The number of people in hospitals increased by six compared to the previous day.
97 people were admitted to hospitals
97 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day. The day before there were a few more of them: 108.
52 patients have artificial lung ventilation. In addition, 727 people are supplied with oxygen.
During the peak of the pandemic, the number of patients in hospitals reached 2.6 thousand in January this year, leading to a regular reduction in the availability of other medical services.
Three people older than 70 and 80 years old each died on the last day, as well as one person older than 60 and 90 years old.
Three people over 80 years of age were fully vaccinated.
A total of 4,751 people have died from COVID-19 to date, of which 67 have been fully vaccinated, there are 9,517 deaths directly and indirectly associated with COVID-19.
Vaccination
In the country, at least one dose of COVID-19 has been vaccinated against 1 million people. 712 thousand 315 people fully vaccinated: 1 million. 584 thousand 435 people.
In Lithuania, 61.3% have received at least one coronavirus vaccine. 69.8% of the population older than 12 years were vaccinated. people.
In total, Lithuania has received more than 4.55 million. vaccine doses, of which more than 3.11 million were used. dose.
Epidemiological situation
Number of new diseases in 14 days 100 thousand. the population continues to increase and reaches 434.1 cases. The proportion of positive diagnostic tests at seven days is 5.8 percent and is slightly lower than the day before.
In the country last day to make 14 thousand. 475 molecular (PCR) and 10 thousand. 56 antigen tests for suspected coronavirus.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has affected 312 thousand people. 481 people, of which 10,000 are still sick. 543.
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