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During the last day 2,066 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania. Another 21 people died, 19 of whom had not been vaccinated.
In our country, a total of 335,801 cases of coronavirus were detected.
There are currently 16,911 sick people and 306,670 are considered to have recovered. 2,116 people were officially added to the recovery statistics on Friday.
124 people infected with coronavirus have been hospitalized in the last day. A total of 1,214 people are treated in the hospitals of our country, 141 of them in resuscitation.
About 14.3 thousand jobs were carried out in the country on the last day. molecular (PCR) and 12.9 thousand. antigen testing for suspected coronavirus.
Nine people older than 70, eight older than 80, two older than 90, and one older than 50 and 60 each died during the day.
One of them was in their 80s and 90s, who were fully vaccinated.
So far, a total of 5,041 people have died from COVID-19 in Lithuania, of which 118 have been fully vaccinated. 9951 deaths are directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
Vaccination
8,349 people were fully vaccinated during the previous day. 2,876 people were vaccinated with the first dose. The second dose of the vaccine was administered to 3,693 people and the third to 1,780 people.
To date, at least one dose of the vaccine has been vaccinated in more than 1 million. 751 thousand people, fully vaccinated: more than 1 million. 619 thousand.
1784 people received the booster dose last day, a total of almost 30,000 people have been revaccinated so far. people.
In Lithuania, 62.6% have received at least one dose of vaccine. population
The lowest proportion of vaccinated children is found among children aged 12-15 years: 28.8%. Among the country’s oldest population, 65.1 percent have been vaccinated after the age of 80.
In total, more than 5.1 million LTL have been received in Lithuania so far. doses of vaccine, just over 3.2 million vaccines were used for vaccination. dose. Currently, those not used are around 1.9 million. dose.
Epidemiological situation
Number of new cases of coronavirus in 14 days 100 thousand. the population reached 726.1 and grew by around twenty points per day. The rate of positive diagnostic tests for seven days rose to 8.2 percent.
In Lithuania, a total of 335.8 thousand COVID-19 patients have fallen ill since the beginning of the pandemic. people, of which almost 16.9 thousand are still ill. – same as the day before.
A. Dulkys: Older People Don’t Need Tests, They Need Vaccinations
When experts suggest free rapid COVID-19 antibody tests for seniors, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys says seniors don’t need tests, but vaccines.
“Let’s stop spreading ambiguous and irrelevant messages: older people do not need tests, older people need vaccines. And we will not create the illusion that we can achieve the result by any other means,” the minister told reporters on Friday.
The presidency announced early Friday that its team of experts is proposing to introduce rapid and free COVID-19 antibody tests for older people.
The adviser to the President Irena Segalovičienė also stated that the incidence of COVID-19 and deaths from this infection indicate a very bad situation, which is also influenced by “ultravaccination rates”, insufficient vaccination of the population aged 65 and over.
A. Dulkys claims that the opportunity to get vaccinated was given priority to one of the country’s first residents.
According to the minister, opportunities for older people to get vaccinated were constantly provided, but most of them did not help.
“We also campaigned with postal workers; unfortunately, these measures only convince one in five older adults and we continue to face that problem,” said A. Dulkys.
Teacher: Vaccines saved 2,000. lives
The Rector of the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), who participated in the meeting of the Council of Health Experts convened at the initiative of the Presidency, prof. Juozas Augutis assures that although the COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country are not the best, vaccines have already saved about 2,000 people. lives. The fact that vaccination significantly improves the epidemiological situation, according to the scientist, is also demonstrated by the example of medical institutions.
“With last year’s rising wave, you can find the point where it had averaged 7 days. about a thousand. 500 cases (although we can already see almost 2,000 today), but if we compare the points that were last fall and now, after reaching the same average number of cases, there were about 500 hospital employees in hospitals who were sick or disabled by cows.
With the same number of cases coming in today, we only have about 80 cases in hospitals for doctors and nurses who cannot work. So it varies not by percentage, but sometimes. As the hospital staff is one of the most effectively vaccinated, reaching over 90%, this shows once again that vaccination works, ”said J. Augutis in a press conference held after the meeting.
The president of VMU has no doubt that vaccines currently prevent a much greater number of cases.
“It can be said with great confidence that if we did not have vaccination, today we would not see 2,000. cases, and probably close to 4 thousand, because the speed of the epidemic and the activity of the delta strain is significantly higher than that of the alpha strain ”, he stated.
In hospitals, the situation has stabilized
Vilnius University Santara clinics are set to open up to ten additional places in the intensive care unit (RITS) for coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, but this has not yet been necessary, says Feliksas Jankevičius, the head of clinics.
“We are ready to open a new RITS section for combat patients, but we do not need it yet, we will monitor the situation. Despite the increasing total number of infected population, the number of hospitalizations in the last week has not changed much in the region. from Vilnius and remains stable here, as well as better news, ”said F. Jankevičius at a press conference on Friday.
“The most gratifying thing is that we do not see the need to increase the RITS beds as the number of hospitalizations remains similar. We are ready to open from ten extra beds, we have reserves for that ”, added the general director of the clinics.
He said 80 percent of the 78 beds for 78 coronavirus patients were occupied in the Santara clinics last week, and the occupancy in the intensive care unit ranged from 80 to 90 percent.
“A similar situation in other hospitals in the region, the 110-bed Vilnius City Clinical Hospital is almost 80 percent occupied, all RITS beds are occupied, but in other hospitals in the region, Alytus , Ukmergė, Elektrėnai, occupancy of crib beds varies from 70 to 80 percent, the same as last week ”, informed the head of the clinics.
