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Unlike what happens at the beginning of a pandemic, there is an increase in the number of children who need oxygen masks, and even serious illnesses can lead to even serious complications after a few weeks.
Rimantas Kėvalas, head of the Children’s Disease Clinic, tells the LNK news that the baby’s condition is complicated.
“Kaunas’s colleagues in the intensive care unit have a seriously ill newborn with coronavirus,” confirmed R. Kėvalas.
Two children are being treated at Kaunas resuscitation clinics. Intensive care is applied to two more minors at another university hospital in Kaunas. It’s true that one child’s condition has improved somewhat and the other child is still with pneumonia, News reports.
Inga Ivaškevičienė, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Children of the Santara Clinics, pointed out on Friday that, compared to the previous period of the pandemic, there are seriously ill children who need to be supplemented with oxygen, and this is worrying.
“Such a situation did not exist during the period of the pandemic, and especially seriously ill children also occur. This situation, that there are children who need additional oxygen, is worrying,” said I. Ivaškevičienė.
According to her, among the current patients with the most severe COVID-19 are adolescents, but in the hospital due to the coronavirus they are from newborns to 18 years of age. The doctor also said that the number of children admitted to the hospital has increased.
“There are currently eight children in the hospital and that number is changing, but there is a growing trend. During the summer, we used to have one, two or no patients, now the room is practically full and there is a constant change, “said the doctor.
She confirmed that a boy is currently in resuscitation treatment, but cannot provide further details about his condition.
On Thursday, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys confirmed to journalists that Vilnius doctors are fighting for the life of a teenager with a severe form of COVID-19.
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“Currently, a child is in resuscitation in Vilnius, and the doctors are fighting for his life for the seventh day. The situation is very complicated. The boy is 14 years old, he has not been vaccinated, he has been infected from his relatives, at home”, the minister told reporters in the Seimas on Thursday.
Last day 1,464 new cases of COVID-19 were identified, 14 people died, the Department of Statistics announced on Friday.
Eleven of the dead were not vaccinated or were partially vaccinated.
3,540 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine. A total of 9,167 people were vaccinated per day.
Currently, hospitals serve 1,005 people, 117 of whom are in resuscitation. Compared to the day before, there are nine fewer people in hospitals.
Hospitals and deaths
97 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 per day, about twenty fewer than the day before.
77 patients are undergoing artificial lung ventilation, with an additional oxygen supply to 823 people.
During the peak of the pandemic in January this year, the number of patients in hospitals reached 2.6 thousand, leading to a regular reduction in the availability of other medical services.
Eight people over 80 years old died last day, three of them vaccinated. Three people over the age of 70 also died, one in their 40s, 50s and 60s each.
To date, a total of 4,885 people have died from COVID-19 in Lithuania, 90 of whom have been fully vaccinated. 9,709 deaths are directly and indirectly related to COVID-19.
Vaccination
To date, at least one dose of the vaccine has been vaccinated in more than 1 million. 732 thousand people, more than 1 million fully vaccinated. 597.8 thousand.
1542 people received the booster dose per day, a total of 20.6 thousand people have been revaccinated so far. people.
So far, a total of 3.18 million has been used for vaccination in Lithuania. vaccine dose.
Due to renovation works, Statistics Lithuania does not currently publish some vaccination data.
Epidemiological situation
Number of new cases of coronavirus in 14 days 100 thousand. the population reached 569.5 inhabitants; grew nearly twenty a day. The proportion of positive diagnostic tests at seven days was unchanged at 6.3 percent.
15 thousand were held in the country on the last day. molecular (PCR) and 11.6 thousand. antigen tests for suspected coronavirus.
In Lithuania, a total of 322.7 thousand COVID-19 patients have fallen ill since the start of the pandemic. people, of which 13 thousand are still sick. 715: a few hundred more than the day before.
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