Video ⟩ Three years have passed since the emergency situation was first declared in Latvia due to Covid-19

On March 13, it will be three years since the day when a state of emergency was declared in the country due to Covid-19, Panorāma reports.

Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the hotel of the Daugavpils Sports Administration Service is closed. Photo: Ivars Soikans/LETA

On March 13, it will be three years since the day when a state of emergency was declared in the country due to Covid-19, Panorāma reports.

Estimates show that the virus has claimed the lives of at least 6,632 people over the years.

The Pulmonary Surgery Center of the Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital (PSKUS) was one of the places where the locks or the blue curtain covering the entrance to the covid department was located. It’s been removed now, but that doesn’t mean covid is gone.

The former head of the Covid department, Dace Žentiņa, said that today there are 50 patients in the center she manages, 14 of them with Covid. Mostly it is a nearby find – a person brought in with pneumonia and turned out to be covid-positive.

During the Covid outbreak, Žentiņa had three 120-bed Covid wards under her supervision. Mortality is high. Emotionally – extremely difficult time.

Epidemiologist Yuriy Perevoshchikov emphasized that the main thing now is to monitor the virus, because the types of covid are still changing.

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