Lithuania has registered 3,181 new coronavirus infections and another 39 deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the country's Statistics Department said on Friday morning.
A total of 106,210 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Lithuania since the start of the pandemic. The country currently has 58,188 active cases, while 46,560 people have recovered, including 1,368 over the past 24 hours.
The Covid-19 death toll has jumped to 972, and 490 coronavirus-infected people have died of other causes.
A total of 1,476,643 tests for Covid-19 have been carried out in Lithuania so far, including 12,595 over the past 24 hours.
Over 1,000 cases in Vilnius region
Many of the new cases were diagnosed in Vilnius County, said Justina Petravičienė of the National Public Health Centre (NVSC).
“Lithuania is simply on fire, we're registering clusters and outbreaks everywhere. In Vilnius County, we recorded a record-breaking number of cases over the last day, over 1,000, something that hadn't happen before,” she told LRT RADIO.
According to her, of the 39 people who died of Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, four were under 60 and not considered to be in risk groups.
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