Lingienė: According to the epidemiological situation, Vilnius is at the level of the beginning of January



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“According to the dynamics, we are at the level of approximately the beginning of January, which shows the seriousness of the situation,” he told LRT Radio on Friday morning.

According to R. Lingienė, according to Thursday’s data, 1027 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Vilnius in 100 thousand cases. population in 14 days, and last week the number of new cases exceeded 400 for two days and 500 for two more days.

“This Tuesday, we registered 615 new cases of COVID-19 every day, which has not been the case since December 30 last year, when we had a peak of infection,” said the head of the NVSC Vilnius department.

True, he noted that most testing is done in Vilnius.

“I would not like to use such epithets – ‘burns’, but objective indicators show that the situation in Vilnius is not good, we are in second position, in a bad sense, after the Vilnius district,” said R. Lingienė.

The epidemiologist also said that he supports the decision to allocate additional quantities of vaccines to the capital in such a situation.

The decision of the Ministry of Health to allocate about 20 thousand. This week, the Pfizer vaccine doses planned for all of Lithuania only caused outrage in other municipalities in the capital. A total of 46.5 thousand is planned for Vilnius, including the Santara clinics. dose, or almost half of all Pfizer shipments to Lithuania this week.

According to data from the Santara clinics, currently 82 percent of Vilnius residents are busy. COVID-19 patient beds.

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