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Last day, the country underwent 9,521 molecular tests (PCR) and 4,748 of antigens for suspected coronavirus.
The rate of new illnesses in the last 14 days is 100,000. the population reaches 349.8 cases. The proportion of positive diagnostic tests in the last seven days is 6.2 percent.
A total of 217,865 people have fallen ill with COVID-19 in Lithuania since the start of the pandemic.
Statistically, 200,266 people have recovered and are currently alive, with 156,831 recovered. Statistically, there are currently 9,645 people with a reported illness of 53,080.
The Department of Statistics considers that a person declared sick has a confirmed case and the end of the disease has not been confirmed by a doctor. A statistically ill person is one for whom illness has been confirmed in the last 28 days. After this period, the person is considered statistically healthy.
According to the department, the statistical rate of patients may be more accurate to assess the morbidity of the population, since among declared patients there may be cases in which a person is no longer ill but the GP has not confirmed the end of the illness. .
A total of 3,594 people died in Lithuania from COVID-19. 7296 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
Almost 17,000 people were vaccinated last day. persons
Last day, 14 thousand people received the first dose of the vaccine. 365 people, the second – 2489, announced on Friday the Department of Statistics.
In the country, 364 thousand people were vaccinated against COVID-19 with the first dose of the vaccine. 930 people, both – 168 740.
The big Easter weekend will be different again. Cities will not encourage the eggs to roll, but will invite them to vaccination drives. The news that the vaccines protect the South African strains already in Lithuania also raises hope that it will be possible to prevent the spread of the virus.
Not satisfied with the vaccination of the elderly.
Vaccination of people over 80 must “be dramatically improved,” says Simon Krėpšta, adviser to the president.
“Our vaccination process is fast enough, but not entirely accurate. We need to change the strategy, find ways to reach those older people. Maybe not everyone answers the call, the message, they need to be contacted in other ways. “This indicator must be improved and it must be drastically improved,” an adviser to the head of state told reporters on Thursday.
“There is a problem here, the president discussed it with the mayors of the big cities. The situation in Kaunas and Vilnius is slightly better than the Lithuanian average, ”he added.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, almost 47% were vaccinated in Vilnius. people over 80 years old, in Kaunas, about 46 percent, while the proportion of vaccinated elderly in Lithuania is about 40 percent.
According to S.Krėpšta, according to this indicator, Lithuania is behind other countries of the European Union.
The ministry’s reaction to the mayor’s joke
After the mayor of the Raseiniai district, Andrius Bautronis, tried to “joke” on his Facebook account that a shipment of the Sputnik V vaccine would reach the Raseiniai district, the Ministry of Health (SAM) reacted. Early in the morning, the ministry turned to the media for help in denying the mayor’s “joke.” Meanwhile, the spokeswoman for the Minister of Health, Aistė Šuksta, says that in such a tense epidemiological situation, one should not joke about these issues.
According to her, the ministry received a number of different opinions regarding the dissemination of false information about the possibility of vaccination with Sputnik V.
Refusal to change the vaccination schedule.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, responding to Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius’s call to freely allow the use of COVID-19 vaccine residues, asserts that in the current situation it is necessary to vaccinate people at risk first. The Prime Minister emphasizes that the institutions should not try to facilitate the search for a population at risk that wants to be vaccinated.
“The priority vaccines, however, are for people who are most at risk of occupying a hospital bed. I understand that it is necessary to find a balance in cases where there are more balances, but now the priorities should be where they are, ”I. Šimonytė told reporters at Seimas.
“Institutions should not try to facilitate work on the grounds that they cannot find older people, they may not want to, etc. The groups most vulnerable to COVID-19 should be vaccinated first,” he added. .
Vaccination during the weekend
It is planned to vaccinate more than 12 thousand people in the capital during the Easter holiday weekend. people, says the mayor of Vilnius R.Šimašius.
“There will be four vaccination points. (…) Tomorrow we plan to receive 17 thousand. doses of vaccines, ”the capital’s chief told reporters on Tuesday.
Vaccination lists
The lists of people who should be vaccinated in order of priority for performing important functions for the state should be taken care of by their workplaces, says Jurgita Grebenkovienė, chancellor of the Ministry of Health (SAM).
“All these groups have their own workplaces, and according to our procedures, it is the managers of those workplaces who make the contact lists, which they deliver to the vaccination institutions,” said the chancellor in an interview with BNS.
According to her, this was decided in order to facilitate the work of the municipalities so that they did not have to pick up these people one by one.
The function of controlling whether all the people on these lists should be vaccinated as a priority is entrusted to the National Center for Public Health and the municipal administrations.
