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On October 24, a day before the second round of the Seimas elections, a 53-year-old relative of the communist family in the Suwalki region died. In the Seimas elections held on Sunday, the woman would occupy the position of president of a constituency. Doctors say the woman died of COVID-19, relatives say she did not have the disease.
“Yesterday, an unexpected, sad and painful message reached the people of our country – yesterday (October 24) the relative of the communists from the Suwalki region left the Admissions Department of the hospital. Happily, upper respiratory failure has become devastating for the vibrant woman who will remain in the memory of many with a smile on her lips. It was in self-isolation, but COVID-19, according to relatives, was not declared, it is written in a message published on Sunday on the Facebook account of the Marijampolė county newspaper “Suvalkietis”.
According to the announcement, the 53-year-old woman was elected president of an electoral district in the Seimas elections.
Facebook post.
The representative of the CEC, Indrė Ramanavičienė, told the portal kauno.diena.lt that they were informed about the death of the woman on Saturday. “In the second half of the day, we were contacted by the head of the constituency, who informed us that the president had died in a constituency. A letter sent by the district president mentioned that a possible deceased could have died from COVID-19, said a spokeswoman for the CEC. – Of course, we have expressed our condolences on the CCA page and we really sympathize with the family and relatives of the deceased. Then the county ensured that work in the area went smoothly and that an adequate number of people were provided. “
The death was announced a few days later.
And although the woman died on Saturday, information about this death appeared in official COVID-19 statistics only days later. On Tuesday, the National Center for Society (NVSC) announced that one of the five deaths recorded on Monday was recorded in Marijampol condado County: the deceased belonged to the age group of 50 to 59 years. The coronavirus was confirmed in one person on October 22.
And although the relatives affirm that the woman did not have COVID-19, the public relations specialist of the Marijampolė Hospital, Aistė Visockienė, affirmed that a woman who died on October 24 was diagnosed with coronavirus. “It just came to our notice then. The ambulance said they knew she had coronavirus (she was diagnosed on October 21 and 22) and they were preparing to go see the patient. No coronavirus test was done on admission to the hospital. , but a positive response was observed in the system. The woman had comorbidities, so forensic experts will answer if the coronavirus was the cause of death, “said a hospital spokeswoman.
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For what reasons was this death included only in the COVID-19 case statistics released Tuesday? “I cannot answer exactly, but probably due to the abundance of work, the doctors did not report. The head of the department who came on Monday announced,” said A. Visockienė.
NVSC representative Justina Petravičienė noted that she received information about this death from the hospital only on Monday, around noon. “The person died on October 24. When we receive information from hospitals about death, that information enters our system and we publish it. This death is included in the system yesterday. Based on the data provided to the NVSC, we cannot decide if the person had comorbidities, because they were not named, ”explained J. Petravičienė.
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