Lithuania ranks 13th in Europe by COVID-19 case

Lithuania comes in 13th in terms of the 14-day COVID-19 case notification rate among the European countries monitored by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and was in the 11th place in terms of 14-day death notification rate.

Last week, the country ranked 11th and 10th last week.

Lithuania’s 14-day case notification rate now stands at almost 288 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, down by 65 cases from last week, according to the center’s data update published on Thursday.

The first among 30 countries is the Czech Republic with the 14-day case notification rate of 968 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Estonia (649) and Slovenia (621),

As regards the 14-day death notification rate, Lithuania comes in 11th with over 91 deaths per 1,000,000 inhabitants, down by 13 deaths over a week.

Portugal comes first with almost 258 deaths per million population, followed by Slovakia (240) and the Czech Republic (174).

Meanwhile, the best rates among the countries monitored by the ECDC continue to be found in Iceland, Norway and Finland.