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The Health Minister urged residents not to call the hotline to repeat the CRP test to demonstrate recovery.
“It is not necessary, I want to remind you, because we receive questions from family doctors, fears that it is feared that recovery will be declared without repeating the text of the PCR. (…) There is a fear that that person will be allowed to work and this will also overload the direct line with completely unnecessary work, ”he said.
The test may be positive, but the person is no longer infected.
Ligita Jančorienė, head of the Santara Clinics Infectious Diseases Corps, recalled that at the beginning of the pandemic, as soon as the virus was announced, there was such a procedure that it was necessary to receive two negative PCR smears for 24 hours. period.
“But during that long time, enough material and evidence has already accumulated that the coronavirus generally does not remain viable for more than 10 days,” emphasized L. Jančorienė.
According to the new published guidelines, it is emphasized that the duration of isolation in case of infection and relapse to Covid-19 infection should definitely be shortened.
“All people who develop a mild to moderate form of Covid-19 infection remain contagious for up to 10 days. Our experience in testing patients also shows that our tests can remain positive for longer. “… However, detecting a virus does not equal the possibility of infecting another,” the doctor explained.
Therefore, he stressed that it is not necessary to repeat the tests, except in severe forms of the disease, where the virus can be isolated for up to 20 days.
“Exceptions can be made in the case of immunosuppressive conditions, this will still need to be specified in the Ministry letters,” said L. Jančorienė, adding that other procedures can be provided in such individual cases.
Most deaths since the start of the pandemic
Last day 735 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania. 181 of them were registered in Kaunas, 129 in Klaipėda, 128 in Vilnius, 80 in Šiauliai, 78 in Telšiai counties. Another 38 cases were recorded in Tauragė 37 Panevėžys, 31 Marijampolė, 21 Alytus and 12 Utena counties.
7 deaths were also recorded. This is the highest number of coronavirus deaths reported per day since the start of a pandemic. Two others died from other causes. A total of 157 people have died since COVID-19. Another 57 people died from other causes.
A total of 13 thousand people in Lithuania were infected with the coronavirus. 823 people, 8918 – still ill, 4691 – recovered.
There are currently 29,000 in isolation. 636 people. As of June 1, 396 import cases had been registered in Lithuania.
12 thousand were examined on the last day. 736 samples for suspected coronavirus. So far a total of 1 million have been investigated. 10 thousand 596 samples.
Most of the cases were infected by contact.
Of the new cases, the vast majority were reported when people became infected after contact with people with confirmed coronavirus. At that time, cases where the circumstances of people’s infection are unclear, i. and Epidemiological studies have shown that individuals have not gone abroad, they have not communicated with confirmed cases of COVID-19, registered 138. However, these figures have not yet been reviewed, since not all epidemiological studies have been completed .
In Lithuanian hospitals, 415 people are treated for COVID-19, 35 of them in resuscitation, 176 patients are treated with oxygen masks and 22 people are treated with artificial lung ventilation.
Of the almost 17 thousand. more than 10,000 of all hospital beds are currently occupied. Resuscitation beds are occupied by more than half: 366 of the existing 637.
Of the 572 beds with artificial lung ventilation, 191 are occupied, of the 6.1 thousand. about 1.9 thousand beds were occupied with oxygen.
Images of how the Covid-19 study is carried out, in a video report.
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