Thirty-eight new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Lithuania over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,474, the country's Health Ministry said on Tuesday morning.
Only two of the cases had been contracted abroad. Twenty-three people became ill after coming in contact with an infected person, while the circumstances surrounding 13 new cases are unclear.
Eleven infections are connected to a family party, which took place on August 1 in Trakai region near Vilnius.
In all, 647 are still ill and 1,733 have recovered.
Eighty-one people have died of Covid-19 in the country so far, and another 13 coronavirus-infected patients have died of other causes.
Some 2,973 people are currently in isolation.
The country has since June 1 registered 156 cases of coronavirus infection contracted abroad.
A total of 584,641 tests have been carried out in Lithuania so far, including 4,188 over the past 24 hours.
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