Veryga: After the weekend of November 1, the incidence of older people has increased dramatically

Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga spoke at a press conference on Monday about how the pandemic will continue to be managed. National Center for Public Health (NVSC) Daiva Razmuvienė, Chief Specialist of the Communicable Disease Management Division, and Brigita Rašimait Special, NVSC Specialist.

We will see the results after the weekend.

A. Veryga was outraged by the irresponsible behavior of the public when she was even invited to celebrate before the start of the quarantine.

“I would like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to act consciously and comply with the quarantine requirements. Really, I think many were upset by the images before the quarantine took effect on Friday night, what was happening in the bars, in the clubs.

We have seen particularly irresponsible behavior when we are invited to celebrate, to stay before the quarantine. I have no doubt that we will see the results of all this after a good week.

Just as we are already seeing results for the long weekend of November 1. Unfortunately, those results are very sad, because we see a very significant increase in the incidence of older people. This means that a significant number of these people will be in medical institutions and this will place an even greater burden on doctors, and some lives will be lost, ”said the head of the Ministry of Health (SAM).

“It just came to our notice then. We have exponential growth. We have seen an increase in cases for several weeks in a row. <...> That is why we decided to publish a national quarantine ”, clarified A. Veryga.

“There is no time to do reviews in the departments”

Veryga has also been criticized by some treatment facilities for failing to rearrange some wards to accommodate COVID-19 patients.

“I already said last week that our system will face the challenge of restructuring its services. Of course, we have both bad and really bad examples that are difficult to explain logically. Some institutions refuse to restructure their activities and direct them to COVID-19 patients. , and they have provided lists of tools that should be purchased. I’ll quote you to imagine.

For example, several hundred thousand people are asked to spend on major repairs, money to buy beds, a new car, lung ventilation, syringe pumps, etc.

Sometimes it seems that the office has not worked at all until then, since it seems that it has no beds, no equipment, no X-rays, no car. The coronavirus cannot be a pretext to renovate the entire hospital and now is not the stage in which the revisions in the wards should be carried out, ”said Veryga.

The Minister recalled that if a medical institution is licensed to provide treatment services, it must also adapt to treat COVID-19 patients.

When asked by the Minister what would happen if there was no place left to house COVID-19 patients, the Minister emphasized that it will be impossible to get additional doctors.

“Today, we just had a discussion about a platform that doctors who would like to work more on, or how it happens in other countries, that doctors of retirement age would like to join. But that would not be a large number. Now we are talking about the reorganization of medical institutions. However, this means that other scheduled services will be suspended and delayed there, and those spaces will be occupied by coronavirus patients. This is the plan. The more there are, the more institutions will be reoriented towards the treatment of patients with coronavirus, ”said the minister.

The application was downloaded by 57,000 people. people.

The minister was pleased that since the launch of the Korona stop app, more than 57,000 Lithuanians have downloaded it, representing around 2 percent. people.

The Minister considers that this number is good, but for the application to have a better effect it would be necessary to download it by 60%. Lithuanian population. Currently, 2 percent of the population downloaded.

According to the minister, the “precursors” of other similar applications are the Finns and the Irish, who downloaded the application from their country much more actively than the Lithuanians. It is estimated that around 40% of these applications were downloaded. Irish and Finnish. In Portugal and Germany, it was downloaded by a quarter of the population.

The application should help track patient contacts and facilitate the NVSC’s work.

It is true that B. Rašimaitė noticed that already during the first days of its operation, the application had already experienced a cyber attack.

The prevalence among physicians is alarming

D. Razmuvienė noted that new cases of coronavirus continued to be reported in all ten counties, most of them in Kaunas.

According to D. Razmuvienė, epidemiologists are more concerned about the situation in health care institutions of various levels and in nursing and care institutions. According to the epidemiologist, more and more doctors from these institutions are getting sick. The coronavirus is increasingly spreading among healthcare professionals, not just doctors, but also nurses and their assistants.

“If last Saturday Sunday a total of 160 infected doctors were registered, in two days it is now, on this day, 1405 health professionals infected. Those numbers increase every day. Not only are new chimneys being formed, but old ones are also expanding, ”said D. Razmuvienė.

According to Monday morning, 839 people are being treated in hospitals for COVID-19, half of whom are in need of oxygen. Artificial lung ventilation is required for 50 people and 80 patients are treated in the intensive care and resuscitation unit.

1056 new cases

The NVSC reported that 1056 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania on the last day.

305 of them were registered in the counties of Kaunas, 293 Vilnius, 157 Klaipėda, 76 Telšiai, 75 Panevėžys, 41 Alytus, 36 Šiauliai, 35 Marijampolė, 26 Tauragė and 7 Utena.

Now that the test results are automatically linked, the data from 579 epidemiological studies have yet to be investigated or entered into the system. This means that it is not yet known under what circumstances or where people were infected. The system shows in which municipalities these people live, but until it is clear if they are infected where their place of residence is declared. For this reason, these epidemiological data are being reviewed.

Cases in which the circumstances of human infection are not clear, i. and Epidemiological studies have shown that people have not gone abroad, they have not communicated with confirmed cases of COVID-19, registered 28. However, these figures have not yet been reviewed, since not all epidemiological studies have been completed .

The NVSC recalls that those who have been confirmed as positive by a PCR test (nasopharyngeal smear), that is, coronavirus, should be isolated immediately without waiting for a call from NVSC specialists, and should inform people with the who have been in contact recently. about potential risks.

Shoots were recorded in shoots on the last day

Larger outbreaks were recorded on the last day at the Dūseikiai welfare home in Telšiai county, Šalčininkai district. Eišiškės ASPC Care Department, Švenčionys district. Hospital, LSMU Kaunas Clinics, Jurbarkas Hospital Public Institution, Mažeikiai Hospital Public Institution.

There are 3 deaths from coronavirus in Lithuania

The NVSC reports that it received information from treatment facilities last day about 3 deaths from coronavirus. Currently, the infection has claimed 210 lives.

The first case of death was in Kaunas County. The person belonged to the age group 80-89 and had chronic diseases. The coronavirus was confirmed in one person on October 28.

The second death was in Klaipeda County. The person belonged to the 90-99 age group and had chronic diseases. The coronavirus was confirmed in one person on November 5.

The third death was in Tauragė County. The person belonged to the 90-99 age group and had chronic diseases. The coronavirus was confirmed in one person on November 8.

In addition, 1 death was recorded in Klaipėda County on Sunday, when a person infected with the coronavirus died for other reasons.