Seventeen new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Lithuania over Monday, bringing the country's total count to 2,137, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday morning.
Lithuania currently has 397 active cases and 1,647 recoveries, 437 people are in isolation.
Eighty people have died of Covid-19 in the country so far, and another 13 coronavirus-infected patients have died of other causes.
Since June 1, Lithuania has confirmed 110 cases of coronavirus infection contracted abroad.
Two of the new cases diagnosed on Monday were linked to foreign travel, according to the National Public Health Centre (NVSC). A person in Panevėžys County was diagnosed with Covid-19 after returning from the UK. The person was tested as a precaution and did not exhibit any symptoms of the disease.
Another person, in Šiauliai County, had returned from Hungary before feeling the symptoms and getting tested.
Public health officials are still trying to trace the source of infection in eight of the newly confirmed cases. One is an employee at the Kazys Grinius Nursing and Palliative Care Home in Kaunas County. Epidemiologists are working to trace all his or her contacts at the care home, according to the NVSC.
Another case in Kaunas County is an employee of the Maxima supermarket chain.
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