Very about increasing morbidity: treatment facilities will have to function differently

Aurelijus Veryga, Minister of Health, Chief of State-Level Emergency Operations, and Daiva Razmuvienė, Chief Specialist of the Infectious Disease Management Division of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), spoke at a news conference Monday about the situation with the management of COVID-19 in the country and what measures are planned. .

You will have to reorganize work

The Minister pointed out that the morbidity situation in the country is not improving.

“In general, the situation in the country is not improving and, unfortunately, the number of our infections, the number of cases and the percentage of people whose route of infection can no longer be determined is growing, which means that the infection is is spreading in the country.

Unfortunately, the occupancy of hospital beds for COVID patients also started to grow a little more intensively. We had a little over 40 percent last week, now we have 57 percent. These are the specific beds for patients with COVID-19. Today the possibility of expanding that number of beds will be discussed, which means that some institutions will have to reorganize their work, ”said A. Veryga.

According to the minister, the medical institution will now have to deliver part of the beds that were intended for regular patients to people with coronavirus infection.

3 new kills

D. Razmuvienė reported 3 new deaths. All the dead are elderly with chronic diseases. Their deaths will be included in Tuesday’s statistics.

“It was reported only this morning, the 3 from Kaunas County,” said D. Razmuvienė.

The first deceased belonged to the 60-70 age group, a resident of the Blinsturbiškės welfare home.

The second person belonged to the age group of 70 to 80 years, had chronic diseases and was treated in the cardiology department of Kaunas Hospital.

The third person was also older: from 70 to 80 years old, he had a chronic disease, he was infected from a person with a close environment.

The virus is spreading to educational institutions and workplaces.

According to D. Razmuvienė, family outbreaks are occurring again, the virus is spreading from families to educational institutions and workplaces.

“The figures from educational institutions are also worrying. Of the 205 cases registered yesterday, it was “registered in educational institutions,” said the epidemiologist.

As pointed out by D. Razmuvienė, currently 45 educational institutions have been registered, in which the spread of the coronavirus has been registered internally: people become infected with another person during the educational process.

New fireplaces reported

D. Razmuvienė also drew attention to the surgical department of the Kaunas Clinical Hospital: 17 cases of COVID-19 have already been registered.

“There are a total of 29 in the Palanga Rehabilitation Hospital and these are the cases that have spread to other regions,” said D. Razmuvienė.

New outbreaks were registered at the Klaipėda Seafarers Hospital in Švėkšna, at the Klaipėda Republican Hospital at the Skuodas branch in a total of 4 related cases.

“Of the 205, almost 150 became ill because they had been in contact with a person with a confirmed coronavirus infection. There is a problem here, because sick or isolated people simply do not follow certain rules and, as we can see, the infection has spread ”, warned D. Razmuvienė.

The mayor of Raseiniai would like to continue the quarantine

The minister also hinted that the quarantine should be extended in Raseiniai until the situation is fully resolved.

“We have preliminary knowledge from the mayor of Raseiniai that it is still planned to jointly request a slightly longer quarantine, that is, request an extension of the quarantine until the situation returns to normal,” said the head of SAM.

Up to 70 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been registered in Vilnius during the last day. When asked if he agrees with the opinion of the mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius, that despite the increasing morbidity, nothing needs to be closed and the virus must be fought by other means, A. Veryga said: therefore , there are not enough tools. Or the same measures are not followed. Because the introduction of a measure in itself does not mean anything if people tend to violate the recommendations. It really all depends on the public conscience.

And it is clear that more measures are sought in this situation. Recommendations were sent to the municipalities today to take action, and if they don’t, the possibility of introducing additional restrictions at the national level will surely be considered. “

The country will be divided into 4 groups

According to the minister, the European Commission has proposed dividing the country into 4 groups: green, yellow, red and gray areas.

Green would be found in countries with a morbidity rate of less than 25 and a percentage of positive tests of less than 4 percent.

Yellow zone: morbidity less than 50 and positive tests less than 4 percent.

Red zone: morbidity greater than 50 and greater than 4 percent. positive tests or morbidity would exceed 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants regardless of the percentage of positive tests. Countries that do not provide clear test criteria would fall into the gray zone.

The same distribution will apply to the municipalities. This means that the measures for a specific municipality will be established under these zones.

Municipalities in the “red” zone will be recommended to declare quarantine.

205 new cases

The NVSC reported that 205 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania last day. 70 of them were registered in Vilnius, 44 in Šiauliai, 27 in Kaunas, 22 in Klaipėda, 21 in Telšiai, 7 in Marijampolė and Panevėžys, 6 in Tauragė and 1 in Alytus counties.

After contact with people confirmed by coronavirus, epidemiologists estimated that 146 people were infected last day, based on currently available data. In addition, 3 import cases were recorded: 2 from Great Britain and 1 from Ukraine. At that time, the circumstances of the infection in 56 people were unclear, i. and Epidemiological studies have shown that people did not travel abroad and did not interact with confirmed COVID-19 cases.

101 cases, according to currently available data, are associated with outbreaks

On the last day in Vilnius county there were 12 cases of coronavirus infection related to the outbreak in the Vilnius kindergarten “Žemyna”, 3 more cases are related to the outbreak in the Vilnius kindergarten “Taškius”, 2 – outbreak in the kindergarten “Gėlynas”, as well as 2 cases, evaluated, are related to the gym Pabradė “Žeimena”. Another case is related to outbreaks at the Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis National School of Arts, Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium in Vilnius, Skaidiškės kindergarten school in Vilnius district, Vilnius “Pušaitė” kindergarten.

Another 2 cases in Vilnius county are associated with the outbreak at the Elektrėnai ice rink, 5 cases of infection, with the family celebration in a Vilnius restaurant.

Yesterday, in Šiauliai county, 8 cases of infection were recorded, related to Šiauliai “Spindulys” educational center, 2 – related to the outbreak in Joniškis “Saulė” basic school day employment center. Another 3 cases of infection are associated with the Šiauliai nursery-kindergarten “Žibutė”, 1 – with an outbreak in the Šiauliai “Bitė” nursery-nursery.

2 cases recorded yesterday in Šiauliai county are related to the outbreak at the confectionery center of the Rimi store operating in the Saulės miestas shopping center, 4 cases – are related to the outbreak at Massive Wood Construction.

Another 2 COVID-19 cases are related to the outbreak in the Kelmė district municipality, 1 – with the fireplace at the Kelmė Child and Family Welfare Center.

In Kaunas County, 1 case is associated with outbreaks at Kaunas Vaižgantas Progymnasium University of Technology, Kaunas Aleksotas kindergarten, Kaunas basketball school “Žalgiris”.

In addition, it is estimated that 1 more case of infection is related to the outbreak in the Department of Surgery of the Kaunas Clinics.

Three cases registered in Klaipėda, Kaunas and Tauragė counties are related to the Palanga Rehabilitation Hospital (29 related cases in total).

Three cases registered in Klaipėda County are related to the outbreak at the Skuodas branch of the Republican Hospital in Klaipėda (4 related cases in total). Another 2 cases are related to the outbreak in the Department of Psychiatry of the Klaipėda Seafarers Hospital in Švėkšna (a total of 4 cases of infection).

It is estimated that another 2 cases are related to the outbreak at the Kartena multifunctional school-center, 1 of each, to the outbreaks at the Ernestas Galvanauskas Vocational Training Center and the Klaipėda Vydūnas Gymnasium.

In addition, 2 cases, according to epidemiologists, are related to the outbreak in Lenkimai, Skuodas district.

In Panevėžys County, 2 cases are associated with an outbreak in the Roquette Amilina company, 1 of each is associated with an outbreak in the Pasvalys Police Commissariat and in the Armed Forces, in the King Mindaugas Hussar Battalion.

In Telšiai County, 4 cases are associated with an outbreak at Plung Old Town School, 2 cases are associated with an outbreak at Telšiai County Police Chief Commissariat. Another 1 case is also related to the outbreak in the editorial office of the Telšių žinios newspaper.

Furthermore, 1 case registered last day is related to an outbreak at Plungė Hospital and 1 is related to an outbreak at Šateikiai Cultural Center in Plungė District.

NVSC reports that a total of 7,726 cases of the COVID-19 disease have been confirmed in Lithuania, 4,468 people are still ill, 3,110 – have recovered.