NVSC: a coronavirus has been detected in a Lithuanian returning from Spain



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Established in Vilnius County. The person traveled to Barcelona for tourism purposes from July 3 to 9, ”said Rolanda Lingienė, Director of the NVSC Vilnius Department, at BNS.

According to her, the infected person arrived in Riga by plane and flew to Vilnius from there.

“He felt the first symptoms of the disease abroad: the temperature increased, during the flight he felt other symptoms: a runny nose, a cough.” Although wearing a mask, the crew was not informed for reasons they could understand, “an NVSC spokeswoman said.

According to R. Lingienė, this person returned home with his own car and isolated himself.

“As he noted, the contact was between a person traveling abroad and people on planes,” he said.

According to R. Lingienė, public health specialists are investigating people traveling together on planes and the risk of their contact.

According to Tuesday’s data, a total of 1,875 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Lithuania, 213 people are still sick, 1,571 have recovered and 130 people are isolated.

79 people died from COVID-19, and 12 other people who died from coronaviruses died from other causes.



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