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Two people over the age of 70 and a man over the age of 80 died. The latter was fully vaccinated and the rest were completely unvaccinated.
The number of new diseases in 14 days is 100,000. the population increased to 317.4 cases and the proportion of positive diagnostic tests at seven days is 5.7 percent.
In the country, on the last day 3,395 molecular tests (PCR) and 3,578 antigens were carried out to the presumed coronavirus.
Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 683 COVID-19 patients, 73 of them in resuscitation, according to data from the Department of Statistics released Monday.
Overall rates of COVID-19 patients in hospitals increased by more than 40 per day, with five more in resuscitation rooms.
Oxygen is added to 592 people and 49 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
49 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day. There were 50 of them the day before.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has caused 302 thousand cases. 979 people, of which 8057 are still ill.
A total of 4,612 people died from COVID-19, of which 43 were fully vaccinated. 9,319 deaths are directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
What makes the delta strain so dangerous?
Although the much more rapidly spreading delta strain of coronavirus has already become predominant in the world, new emerging strains of the virus are of concern. What you need to know about the delta variety is shared by Prof. Habil, President of the Lithuanian Association of General Practitioners. Dr. Julius Kalibatas.
The delta coronavirus strain, so recently introduced to India last December, appears to be ending its conquest of the entire world, posing ever-new challenges for healthcare systems, scientists and, of course, politicians. Worse still, there are no promising strains of SARS-CoV-2 in delta plus, epsilon, kappa, lambda, miu, and, in the near future, seemingly even more dangerous variants of coronavirus.
The main condition for the survival of each virus is the greatest possible number of mutations in the shortest possible time, which allows the accidental occurrence of one or another mutation that increases the infectivity of the virus, environmental resistance (fluctuations in temperature, drought, radiation, acid or alkaline environment, etc.).
Of course, the virus should not be able to destroy the host’s immune system until the virus has managed to multiply and infect those around it. The risk of any virus can be assessed by its level of infectivity, diagnostic potential, severity of disease (number of victims), and efficacy of the vaccine.
So, how dangerous is the SARS-CoV-2 delta strain and the variants of this strain? Scientific studies of the viral genome have shown that mutations in the coronavirus needle protein altered the amino acid sequence, significantly enhancing the virus’s ability to enter cells.
If the adhesion and intracellular uptake of the initial coronavirus variant was evaluated at less than 40%, the alpha strains increased to 50% and the delta and its variants to more than 75%. As a result, the level of infectivity has increased significantly. Yes, according to American scientists, if the British alpha strain was 50-60 percent. higher risk of infection compared to the initial coronavirus variant, this infectivity rate of the already delta strain has reached 50%. higher than the alpha variety. Japanese researchers report that the delta strain is 2.5 times more contagious than the original SARS-CoV-2, but they are even more concerned about the emergence of new delta variants with high infectivity.
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