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During the previous day, 853 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania. In total, COVID-19 has already been registered for 216,119 people in the country. He is currently ill with 9198.
Another 7 patients died on Tuesday. The virus has already claimed 3,574 victims in Lithuania.
Incidence of coronavirus infection in the last 14 days 100 thousand. the population reaches 328.9 cases.
199,023 people have already recovered from COVID-19. 435 recovered in the last day.
5,575 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine on Tuesday. The second dose of the vaccine was received by 5,976 people on Tuesday.
In Lithuania, 336,458 people received the first dose of the vaccine. A total of 158,925 have already been vaccinated with the second dose of the vaccine.
In Lithuania, 495,383 vaccines have already been used.
9258 PCR samples were analyzed during the previous day. A total of 2,311,399 samples have already been analyzed.
Lithuanian hospitals are currently treating 812 COVID-19 patients, 82 of them in resuscitation, Statistics Lithuania reported on Wednesday.
Oxygen is added to 691 patients and 45 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
103 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day.
In Lithuania, since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has caused 216 thousand cases. 119 people.
According to the declared data, 52 thousand are still sick. 607 infected, but it is statistically estimated that 9198 people should be sick.
Seven people died last day from COVID-19, ages 60 to 99, according to data released by Statistics Lithuania on Wednesday.
The four dead were between 60 and 69 years old. Each of the deceased belonged to groups of 70-79 years, 80-89 years and 90-99 years.
All of these people died in hospitals.
The Statistics Department notes that the number of deaths per day is preliminary and can be replaced with records delayed within a few days.
A total of 3,574 people died in Lithuania from COVID-19. 7,258 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
Most of the deaths from COVID-19 (1,282 people) were in the age group 80-89 years. The four dead were between 20 and 29 years old.
The spread of the “British” variety
A further 215 new cases of the UK (UK) coronavirus mutation have been identified in Lithuania, no South African strains have been found since Friday, the National Public Health Laboratory (NSPL) reported Monday.
After examining 186 samples in the Vilnius Santara Clinics laboratory, 107 cases of the UK strain of the virus were identified; According to the NSPL, this strain already represents more than half of the samples analyzed in Vilnius, as well as three-quarters of Alytus and Utena this week.
172 samples were examined in the laboratory of the Kaunas clinics, including 108 cases of the British strain. These samples further refine the distribution of the infectious mutation between counties.
Vaccines spill
The mayor of the capital, Remigijus Šimašius, is asking the Ministry of Health (SAM) to allow more free use of COVID-19 vaccine residues, so that it is not necessary to discard doses.
“Informal talks have already taken place, and today the mayor of Vilnius has officially asked SAM to allow the vaccines left at the end of the day to be used more freely by registrants, thus avoiding losses,” said Karolis Vaitkevičius, spokesperson for the mayor told BNS on Tuesday.
According to municipal data, 72 doses of more than 81,000 vaccines had to be used in the capital.
The Kaunas city municipality has lost a total of 41 doses out of 82,000, mostly Moderna vaccine.
You have to prove that you were vaccinated
For people who have been vaccinated with two doses of COVID-19, isolation after patient contact is not yet possible unless evidence of the vaccine is provided, according to the National Center for Public Health.
“At this time, we cannot automatically assess whether a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19 and therefore does not receive isolation after a high-risk exposure. Scheduling work is currently underway that will ensure that NVSC receives such information and that additional human resources are not required, ”said the center’s representative, Justina Petravičienė, on BNS on Tuesday.
“Generally speaking, the NVSC system is expected to make a request to the electronic health system and automatically verify if a person on the high-risk list has been vaccinated,” he added.
According to the representative of the center, currently in these cases a person vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine must present an extract from the e-health system.
Vaccine delivery
On Tuesday, the sixth shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the company “Moderna” arrived in Lithuania, in which – 22.8 thousand. dose, reported the Ministry of Health.
It is the largest batch of vaccines from this manufacturer that has reached Lithuania so far, which will arrive in the country’s municipalities on Wednesday.
As of March 30, Lithuania had received a total of 39.6 thousand. 37.8 thousand doses of Modern vaccine were used to vaccinate the population.
Virus outbreaks
Recently there have been some outbreaks in social care homes that have recently become the largest outbreaks of coronavirus infection (COVID-19), with dozens or more than one hundred cases of COVID-19, according to epidemiological studies from the National Health Center Public. (NVSC). Data collected during the year.
Last week there were three outbreaks of coronavirus infection in a social care home. According to Giedrė Aleksienė, head of the Communicable Disease Management Unit of the NVSC, acting as director, this is a good and long-awaited sign of hope, especially remembering which outbreaks were registered in these types of institutions before the vaccination of residents and employees. it started.
“The sharp decrease in the number of outbreaks in social care homes, which are often inhabited by people more vulnerable to coronavirus infection, is a trend that suggests the expected signs of improvement. This shows once again that the vaccine is a special advance in antiviral science and that those who already have the opportunity to be vaccinated should not give it up, ”says G. Aleksienė.
The highest number of active outbreaks, that is, those with new cases of COVID-19 in the last 14 days, were registered in educational and treatment institutions last week, 46 and 42, respectively. The number of outbreaks in these types of institutions remains stable compared to the previous week.
