Lithuania has registered 468 new coronavirus infections and 19 deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the country's statistics office said on Friday morning.
This brings the country's coronavirus-related death toll to 3,038.
Lithuania's 14-day coronavirus infection rate currently stands at 288 per 100,000 people.
Overall, 189,665 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Lithuania since the start of the pandemic.
Some 172,736 people are considered as having statistically recovered and 10,701 as statistically sick, compared to the declared figures of 121,755 and 61,682, respectively.
On Thursday, Statistics Lithuania began releasing data based on a new methodology that separates data on active coronavirus cases into declared and statistical ones. A declared patient is a person who has been diagnosed with the disease but their recovery has not been confirmed by their general practitioner.
A statistical patient is a person who has been diagnosed with the disease in the last 28 days.
The statistical incidence rate may more accurately reflect the real situation, the service says.
A total of 3,038 deaths have been caused directly by Covid-19 in Lithuania so far. A total of 5,879 deaths are either directly or indirectly linked to this infectious disease.
As of Friday morning, 90,963 people in Lithuania have received their first coronavirus vaccine shots and 53,246 have been given two jabs, including 6,579 and 1,228 in the last 24 hours, respectively.
A total of 6,942 Covid-19 tests have been carried out in the past 24 hours.
Moreover, 529 antigen tests and 2,246 antibody tests have been carried out in Lithuania over the past 24 hours as their totals have reached 26,138 and 114,771, respectively.
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