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The epidemiological situation is worrying throughout the country. The so-called black disease zone of COVID-19 includes more and more municipalities, almost all of western Lithuania and the abundance of “black” municipalities in southern Lithuania.
The city of Šiauliai entered the black zone a week ago. A week ago, the incidence in the last 14 days was 100,000. The city’s population stood at just over 550 cases, up from nearly 820 on Tuesday.
The celebration and the school may have had an impact
According to the mayor of the city Artūras Visockas, the deterioration of the situation could have been caused by two main reasons: the city festival and the schools.
A couple of weeks ago, from September 10 to 11, the city of Šiauliai celebrated its 785th anniversary. The festival events started on September 9, Šiauliai invited citizens to participate in conferences, games, fairs, dances, concerts and other activities.
The mayor of Šiauliai says the commemoration of the jubilee city’s birthday may have had an impact on morbidity.
“Of course, as the city festival unfolded, the incidence will increase, but it is unclear if it is only from the return of students to schools that the disease is really spreading,” says A. Visockas.
A. Visock sees a problem on the students’ tests. According to him, tests of students in schools may not have yielded the expected results.
“What about the fact that we do tests? Imagine the students in the classroom, with or without masks, actually infecting each other. They come home, they infect their parents, they go to the factory, they infect their co-workers ”, considers A. Visockas.
The mayor says that if this continues, schools and manufacturing facilities in the area may need to close. The mayor blames the current system for this.
“It just came to us then. When there is a level of risk when a child is a carrier of the disease, family members should not go to work until they are examined,” says A. Visockas.
So far, there are no schools closed in the municipality due to COVID-19.
According to data from the Statistics Department on Tuesday, 44 coronavirus outbreaks have been recorded in Šiauliai. Most of them, 37 out of 44, are registered in urban educational institutions.
There are four outbreaks in manufacturing companies, one, the largest, in a personal health care center and another in a logistics company.
The hospital cares for two babies
The Šiauliai Republican Hospital website provides information that 79 COVID-19 patients are being treated at the hospital on Tuesday.
Of these, 19 are treated in the Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit. The youngest is 48 years old and the oldest is 77 years old.
Six patients receive high-flow oxygen therapy, 13 patients receive ventilation, and eight receive vasopressor therapy.
Zita Katkienė, a representative from the Republican Hospital Šiauliai, states that it is not possible to say exactly what proportion of the patients admitted to the hospital were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, because such statistics are not kept in the hospital.
“The infectologists say 10 percent. vaccinated. Patients with particularly severe conditions who are in resuscitation have an incomplete vaccination, a dose and a vaccination with the first. He has cancer diseases, he was vaccinated with the first ones when he began to vaccinate and now for him, of course, the vaccination is over, and with the third vaccine he has not been vaccinated. All the other 19 have not been vaccinated, ”says Z. Katkienė of tv3.lt.
Currently, six children are being treated at the Šiauliai Republican Hospital’s Clinic for Women and Children. According to a hospital spokeswoman, all were not vaccinated. The youngest child treated is a one-month-old baby and the oldest is 16 years old. age teenager.
According to Z. Katkienė, two babies are being treated for COVID-19 at the hospital. Both were treated in resuscitation for some time, but were transferred to the pediatric ward on Monday and their condition is improving.
“The doctor noticed that those who go to the hospital are not vaccinated. Sometimes it happens on an outpatient basis, it happens and people get vaccinated, ”says Z. Katkienė.
Most of the children admitted to the hospital have an age before which vaccination is not yet possible, that is, up to 12 years. age.
September 27 Two patients died of COVID-19 at Šiauliai Republican Hospital.
Eight hospital nurses are temporarily disabled by COVID-19.
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