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Testing for Covid-19 / J. Stacevičius/LRT
A person in Lithuania has been diagnosed to have the UK variant of the coronavirus, the Health Ministry confirmed on Monday.
According to the ministry s spokesman, the person is a woman from Vilnius who tested positive for the coronavirus in early January.
Her sample was sent for genome sequencing to a laboratory in Roterdam, the Netherlands. “On January 27, the National Public Health Laboratory received a confirmation that the sample contained the variant of SARS-CoV-2 with the B.1.1.7 mutation,” Vytautas Beniušis told BNS.
The woman most probably got the virus from a family member diagnosed with the disease earlier, according Lithuania s National Public Health Centre (NVSC), and had not travelled abroad before testing positive.
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The NVSC s coronavirus call centre / NVSC
Lithuania s National Public Health Centre (NVSC) came under a cyber attack on Tuesday, which may delay tallying latest coronavirus statistics, according to Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas.
The NVSC, which manages information about the coronavirus pandemic in the country, had its email system down after someone opened an infected attachment, according to Anušauskas.
“The NVSC s email is down for some time and it might undermine its work, providing and receiving information,” the minister posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
He also called on people not to open unknown email attachments that might infect computers.
Lithuania will not follow Latvia in introducing curfew – minister
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Lithuania s government will decide next week whether to tighten the lockdown restrictions, but does not plan any new measures over the New Year celebrations, according to the health minister.
Even though Lithuania reported a record 3,934 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys said the government would wait until January 6 to evaluate whether the current measures, introduced two weeks ago, are effective.
“We will analyse and assess the developments after January 1 or, more precisely, Three Kings Day [January 6],” Dulkys told reporters.
Emotet malware hits Lithuania s National Public Health Center
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The internal networks of Lithuania s National Center for Public Health (NVSC) and several municipalities have been infected with Emotet malware following a large campaign targeting the country s state institutions. When infected recipients opened infected messages, the virus entered the internal networks of the institutions, NVSC officials said in a statement published today. Infected computers, after downloading additional files, began sending fake emails or engaging in other types of malicious activity.
Lithuanian government officials, ministry representatives, and epidemiological diagnostics experts that have previously been contacted by NVSC specialists via email have all received Emotet-infected emails from infected systems.