The absence of the newly detected cases of Covid-19 in one day does not yet indicate that a repeated outbreak of the disease could have been avoided, Professor Ģirts Briģis, Head of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Riga Stradins University, told LETA.
“With small numbers of newly diagnosed diseases, fluctuations from zero to ten are within a few cases and can only indicate a certain stability of the current situation. This does not necessarily indicate that a new Covid-19 outbreak has been avoided, ”said Briģis.
He emphasized that the situation with the disease should be assessed over a longer period of time and that some conclusions could be drawn only by evaluating the results of next week’s tests.
“I assume that the tests performed in the past days were purposeful and tested on people who had a high probability of contact with previously infected people. From this point of view, it can be assumed that most of the contact persons of last week’s outbreak of the disease have been discovered, ”explained Briģis.
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It has already been reported that 1467 Covid-19 tests were performed in Latvia last day and no new cases of the disease have been registered, according to the information compiled by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC).
To date, 168,947 Covid-19 examinations have been performed in the country, with 1,173 cases and 30 deaths. 1019 people have recovered.
There are no inpatients with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. At present, three patients with the new coronavirus are still being treated in hospitals, two of whom are moderately ill and one is severely ill. A total of 183 patients were discharged from the hospital, including both those who had recovered and those who had died.
The number of new cases of Covid-19 infection has increased significantly this week. Seven new cases were registered on Monday and Tuesday, 13 on Wednesday, 11 on Thursday and eight on Friday.
In order to limit the spread of Covid-19 and prevent more and more outbreaks of the disease, the Cabinet of Ministers decided at an extraordinary meeting on Friday to shorten the working hours of public catering establishments.
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