On Monday, Lithuania registered 775 new coronavirus infections and another 32 deaths from Covid-19.
The number of new infections is usually lower at the start of the week due to lower volumes of testing over the weekends. However, Monday's figure marked the first time the daily tally dropped below 1,000 since November 16.
A total of 160,446 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Lithuania since the start of the pandemic. Some 64,642 people are still ill with the virus, while 92,608 have recovered, including 132 over the past 24 hours.
The coronavirus-related death toll now stands at 2,232, including three earlier fatalities added to the tally on Monday.
So far, 22,549 people in Lithuania have received their first coronavirus vaccine shots.
A total of 1,742,958 tests for Covid-19 have been carried out in the country so far, including 4,269 over the past 24 hours.




