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“This morning about 350 epidemiological studies have not been carried out. Note that these figures include cases in which we are talking about individual infected people, as well as outbreak investigations,” said Justina Petravičienė, representative of the institution, on BNS on Thursday .
“If, for example, an outbreak is detected in a hospital, the information on the contacts of those infected, both in the workplace and in the personal sphere, is now provided by the institution itself. We inform those people who are on the lists about the contact they have and the isolation they are given. However, we have not been able to communicate and identify in detail all the contacts we have with each person infected in that outbreak, as we have done before, “he added.
Separately, as we have done in the past, we are no longer able to communicate and identify in detail all the contacts we have with each person infected in that outbreak.
According to the representative of the NVSC, this is also reflected in the statistics: the number of isolated people, which has been growing steadily in the past, now reaches 28 thousand. 756.
When asked how those people who think they had contact, but the patient did not mention them in the workplace, should not be listed and received no information from the NVSC about mandatory isolation, J. Petravičienė stated that these people should Isolate yourself and fill out a special form on the NVSC website. .
“As the number of cases increases, we are no longer able to conduct in-depth epidemiological studies, so we have been urging people to be aware and self-isolate for some time if they are suspected of having been in contact with a patient,” he said .
Another record of new infections was confirmed Thursday: 950 people were diagnosed with the infection and six died.
A total of 13 thousand people in Lithuania were infected with the coronavirus. 88 people, 8301 – still sick, 4582 – recovered.
A total of 150 people have died since COVID-19 and 55 people have died from other causes.
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