Lithuania has registered 1,168 new coronavirus infections and nine deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the country's statistics office said on Thursday morning.
Lithuania's 14-day coronavirus infection rate currently stands at 483.2 per 100,000 people, and the share of positive tests has been 6.6 percent over the past seven days.
Overall, 230,462 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Lithuania since the start of the pandemic.
Currently, 208,890 people are considered as having recovered and 13,241 remain active cases.
A total of 3,730 people have died from Covid-19 in Lithuania so far. The overall number of deaths directly or indirectly related to the coronavirus has reached 7,561.
Around 25,000 vaccines were administered on Wednesday: 19,122 people were given the first shot and 6,192 received the second jab.
So far, 528,668 people in Lithuania have been vaccinated at least once, or around a fifth of the population.
Correction: an earlier version of the story incorrectly stated 727,982 as the number of vaccinated people. This figure refers to the total vaccine doses used.
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