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“Give hope”
Simonas Krėpšta, senior adviser to the president and head of the Economic and Social Policy Group, said the latest population mobility data provided by Google is encouraging.
“The strict quarantine was approved just a few days ago, it is too early to speak of its effects. What is very obvious is that we are seeing quite significant changes in population mobility. “It has fallen very steeply since last Wednesday and has reached the level of the first quarantine in individual categories,” said a representative of the presidency.
Name this data as a hope.
2/3 would like to be vaccinated against the coronavirus
At the request of the presidency, a recent population survey shows that 2/3 of the population promises to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“Made just before the introduction of strict measures, it shows that 2/3 of people over 18 years of age plan to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. (…) About half of the people would like to do this as soon as possible. (…) We can say that 2/3 of the people are in favor of the vaccine and we hope that it can change the management of the pandemic ”, said S. Krėpšta at a press conference held in the Presidency.
He said the survey data would be released a bit later, but about 68 percent of those surveyed promise to get vaccinated, saying they will definitely be vaccinated or likely to be vaccinated.
Mr Krėpšta said in the Presidency that it is still very difficult to say when vaccination can be expected to start.
“Unfortunately, we cannot say specific plans for a simple reason: the figures related to the supply of the vaccine change every day. We see that the Modernos vaccine will be licensed in early January, which will provide an additional flow of vaccines. This suggests that the number of vaccines entering the EU each week will increase next year. This will enable several thousand doctors and other vulnerable people to be vaccinated each week, “said adviser to President G. Nausėda.
The storm of large supermarkets is also registered in the data
Professor Mindaugas Stankūnas, from the Department of Health Management of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, said that the level of the epidemic continues to rise.
“We really want to believe that it will go below the threshold of 1 and we will see positive trends. So far, sadly, we are seeing an increase in the number of cases and it is especially concerning that the number of new cases per day is really high,” said M Stankūnas.
There was also a lot of talk about changes in population mobility. As S. Krėpšta mentioned, the mobility indicators now recall the statistics of the first quarantine.
The LSMU professor said that last week before the non-essentials stores closed, photographers fixed full parking lots near major supermarkets and there was a real shot. The mobility data shows the same.
“We are using Google Reports and we are seeing some really interesting changes in mobility. Compare population visits to certain places, that number being a reference in January this year.
During the first quarantine, in late March and early April, mobility dropped by almost 65 percent. When the first restrictions were announced in early November, it was -38 percent. (…) We can see that last Monday and Tuesday much mobility had been saved in this sector. This type of photos that were in the social space showed a real image. He really visited a lot of supermarkets, ”said the LSMU professor.
“And since Wednesday, visits to supermarkets have dropped significantly to 61-64 percent, practically reaching the level of the first quarantine,” said the expert.
The mutation must also be registered in Lithuania.
Professor M. Stankūnas stated that it cannot be ruled out that the mutated coronavirus is already present in Lithuania.
“We cannot rule out that possibility,” Stankoon said of a coronavirus mutation in the UK.
Life Sciences Center (GMC) of Vilnius University (VU) prof. Edita Sužiedėlienė also stated at the press conference that a coronavirus mutation should already be detected in Lithuania.
“A new variant of the virus has been identified, that is, a variant in which not one but several mutations have been identified in the viral genome. (…) It has been discovered that this strain of the virus is widespread in Great Britain in recent weeks. Most likely, we also have such variants introduced in Lithuania in recent period, ”said E. Sužiedėlienė.
The professor asked to monitor the health and condition of people returning from the UK.
“It would be possible to do that, we are talking about several thousand people. You have to make sure they get tested for coronavirus, to know where they are going, to which family farms, “said the professor at a press conference about the monitoring of returnees from the United Kingdom.
“It wouldn’t be a big challenge,” he said.
The first vaccines will be given on December 27
After the European Commission approves the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines, the vaccines will be shipped to Lithuania and other European countries over Christmas, and the first vaccinations in Lithuania should take place on December 27.
The president told reporters on Monday that he did not yet know when larger shipments of the vaccine would arrive in Lithuania, but it was clear that the first shipments of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines could be delivered each week.
Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines can be shipped weekly. If you are talking about another manufacturer, which will also soon complete the authorization process, that is, Moderna, if I am not mistaken, the decision on the authorization must be made at the European Agency on January 6 and then in a few days the vaccine must be delivered logistically to Lithuania, ” he said. head of country.
54 deaths were recorded
In 1871 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed last day, 54 people died from COVID-19, the Department of Statistics said Tuesday.
This is the highest number of confirmed deaths per day since the start of a pandemic.
3019 patients recovered on the last day.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 116,000 people have been infected with COVID-19. 358 people, 60 thousand. 514 – still ill, 54 Cerdocyon 197 – recovered.
A total of 1,093 people died from coronavirus in Lithuania and 554 people died from other causes.
Last day, 8,377 samples were tested for suspected coronavirus, bringing the total number of samples tested since the start of the pandemic to 1 million. 524,304.
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