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Last day COVID-19 pandemic indicators:
- Number of new human cases confirmed in the last day: 902
- Total number of confirmed cases in specific individuals: 161,348
- Number of deaths from Covid-19 in the last day: 27 (detailed below)
- Total number of deaths from Covid-19: 2272
- Number of people recovered in the last day: 2,937
- Number of people who recovered: 95,627
- Number of people with coronavirus: 62451
- Suspected coronavirus samples analyzed during the previous day: 7601
- To date, a total of 1751038 samples have been tested for suspected coronavirus.
- Individuals vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 during the previous day: 1961
- Total number of people vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2: 24,995
Monday Fourth shipment of COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by BioNTech and Pfizer arrives in Lithuania, in it – 25 thousand. 740 doses of vaccine.
The first shipment arrived in Lithuania at the end of December. In total, Lithuania has already reached just over 66 thousand. dose of vaccine.
It was also reported Monday that COVID-19 begins vaccinating residents and nursing facility staff.
According to the Ministry of Social Security and Labor (SADM), around 13 thousand people live in these institutions in Lithuania, more than 8 thousand work in these institutions. people. About 40 percent. of these have already been infected with COVID-19 and will not be vaccinated.
Rapid antibody tests will be done prior to vaccination to determine if a person has not been aware of the disease. If a positive test result is found, these people will not be vaccinated either.
When doctors started vaccinating, there were those who got vaccinated out of turn. 15 minutes On Saturday, Ričardas Ūselis, director of the Ambulansas company, which operates the private Šilalė ambulance station, and three members of his family, who came from Vilnius, announced that the COVID-19 vaccine for doctors had been vaccinated in Šilalė.
Later it was learned that Juozas Pranckevičius, the head of the Transmeda real estate group, also received the vaccine after overtaking the doctors. – another relative of R. Ūselis and former Ambulance shareholder. Monday LRT radios I learned to work with these people Antanas Levickas, a former head of Šilalė Hospital, who no longer works at the hospital, was also vaccinated.
Specialists from the National Center for Public Health summarized information on cases, deaths and outbreaks of COVID-19 last year. Although the numbers may continue to change as there are still several outbreaks of the disease, it is already clear that Since the beginning of the pandemic, two Kaunas medical institutions and their units have become the largest foci of COVID-19, with 2,095 cases and 68 deaths.
According to the NVSC on January 8, the largest outbreak was recorded in the entire period since the start of the pandemic. Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Hospital and its units, with 1,100 cases detected in outbreaks: 690 workers, 271 patients, 139 secondary cases.
These outbreaks are associated with 38 deaths and 11 deaths from other causes. The highest number of deaths was recorded in November-December.
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