Last week, 26.5% of all detected and clarified cases of Covid-19 infection occurred in his family, the media told Yuri Perevoshchikov, director of the Infectious Diseases Risk Analysis and Prevention Department of the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC).
Meanwhile, 29.3% of all newly discovered Covid-19 patients have been infected in the workplace and 31.4% in educational institutions.
In turn, infections related to medical institutions were detected in 6% of cases, the epidemiologist explained, adding that the number of cases in medical institutions is not large and these cases are not related to only one medical institution.
In turn, in 5% of cases, persons became infected in sports, the epidemiologist revealed.
At the same time, according to preliminary data, the conditions of infection were clarified in about 80% of cases last week.
It has already been reported that 2169 Covid-19 tests reported 95 new infections in the past day, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (SPDC). One patient with a confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 died.
4.3% of all tests were positive last day. The SPCC has previously explained that this figure is considered important in the European Union, as above 3%, the spread of the disease is considered to be rapid and uncontrolled.
During the last day, the recovery of three patients from Covid-19 was also registered, thus 1325 persons have recovered so far.
A total of 364,012 Covid-19 examinations were performed in Latvia, but 2,765 persons became ill.
Data from the National Health Service show that five patients with Covid-19 have been hospitalized in the last 24 hours. A total of 65 patients are treated in hospitals, of whom 59 have a moderate course of disease and six have a severe course of the disease. To date, 247 patients have been discharged from the hospital, including both recovered and dead.
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