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“Late on Tuesday night, we received information that three children of the participants of the celebration in Kernavė were infected with the coronavirus. The children themselves did not participate in the celebration, they had contact with the participants. They did not attend educational institutions but they attended certain celebrations, soccer training sessions, a dance club. To date, at least 12 people have been identified who have been in contact with them, “Rolanda Lingienė, director of the department of NVSC’s Vilnius on Wednesday.
According to her, a total of six of the eight people who attended the celebration, as well as six related people or colleagues, were infected with the coronavirus.
On Wednesday, the mayor of Širvintos Živilė Pinskuvienė district told BNS that at least eight of all those infected are from Kernavė.
Late Tuesday night, the municipality of Širvintos district, which also includes Kernavė, announced that cultural and sporting events, camps, training and competitions would be canceled for two weeks due to the threat of the spread of the coronavirus, as well as a kindergarten group in Musninkai.
Furthermore, the NVSC reported that preliminary information had been received on another new case in the Širvintos district. According to preliminary data, this is a person related to infected children, but R. Lingienė stated that he had no further information and that the new case should be included in the statistics on Thursday.
According to the NVSC, a total of 61 people had contact with infected participants or their relatives, 47 of whom were isolated.
According to R. Lingienė, two of the six new cases confirmed the day before have already been reported Tuesday: Employees of the Norfa store and Santara’s clinics became ill.
“Seven high-risk people have been identified at the store. (…) An employee of the Santara Clinics Infectious Diseases Department is related to a Norfa employee.” It is probably clear where the disease spread to Norfa, ” an NVSC spokeswoman said.
“In addition, our institution was also contacted by people who visited that store, there are around 40 of them, we contacted them,” added R. Lingienė.
According to her, one case is imported: the coronavirus has been confirmed for another sailor returning from Nigeria.
A total of 1,733 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Lithuania, according to official data on Wednesday. 280 people still suffer from the infectious disease and 1,369 have recovered.
Since COVID-19, 74 people have died and ten more have died from other causes.
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