Lithuania has confirmed 2,300 new coronavirus infections and 27 deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the country's statistics office said on Tuesday morning.
Twenty-one of the fatalities were either not vaccinated or only partially vaccinated.
A total of 8,975 people have been vaccinated over the past 24 hours, including 2,709 who received their first dose.
So far, Lithuania has vaccinated 65.3 percent of its population with at least one shot.
The total number of Covid-19 patients in Lithuania's hospitals currently stands at 1,914, including 143 ICU cases.
Some 9,700 molecular (PCR) tests for Covid-19 and 10,900 antigen tests have been performed over the past 24 hours.
The 14-day infection rate edged down for the second successive day to 1,381.4 per 100,000 people, and the seven-day percentage of positive tests ticked down to 16 percent.




