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According to her, that 11 percent is also worrying. The epidemiological diagnosis of the infected people was not made, the epidemiologists did not have the opportunity to contact them and obtain important information for the management of the coronavirus infection.
“Why? Definitely not because we couldn’t. The reasons are very simple and have been talked about more than once: either there were no phone numbers of the people on e-health or they were wrong. A small part has not yet I was ready to cooperate, “R. Lingienė wrote on Facebook on Thursday evening.
At that time, more than 40 percent. The circumstances of the confirmed cases of infection in Vilnius in February remained unknown.
“Generally speaking, infected people cannot provide colleagues who interact with them with specific places where they could have been infected,” he said.
According to R. Lingienė, compared to January, the number of COVID-19 cases in the city was halved in February due to strict quarantine, but morbidity remained above the Lithuanian average.
According to her, this is due to several reasons: a higher population density, more companies where employees cannot work remotely, one of the largest hospitals in the country, receiving treatment from all over Lithuania, as well as greater mobility of the population.
“The” contribution “of the British strain of the virus cannot be ruled out, especially when even 44% During the epidemiological diagnosis of confirmed coronavirus infection cases in Vilnius in February, people could not indicate the places and circumstances of the infection, ”said the epidemiologist.
According to her, 31 percent. Of Vilnius residents who were diagnosed with COVID-19 last month were infected in their families, 8 percent. – at work, 2 percent each. – in educational institutions and abroad.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, in the last 14 days, 100,000. There were 390 new cases of COVID-19 per capita, while the Lithuanian average in this period reached 233.2 new cases per 100,000. population.
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