COVID-19 blog, June 21th: There were no positive COVID-19 test results in last 24 hours

Over the past 24 hours, 440 tests were analysed for the COVID-19 causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, none of them showed positive results.

According to the latest data from the morning of June 21th, 8 patients require hospitalisation in Estonia due to the coronavirus, of whom one is on ventilation. Over the 24-hour period no new COVID-19 linked death cases were reported. In total, the coronavirus has caused the deaths of 69 persons in Estonia.

370 persons have been discharged from hospitals and 383 disease cases have been closed.

To date 1764 persons have recovered from the disease. 1353 (76.7%) of these cases have been closed and in the cases of 411 persons (23.3%), more than 28 days have passed from receiving a positive test result and they are not hospitalised.

A total of more that 102 thousand first time tests have been carried out in Estonia, of which 1981 (1.9%) have been positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. For more detailed statistics on coronavirus testing, please see www.koroonakaart.ee/en.

The Health Board reminds everyone that even after the end of the emergency situation, vigilance towards COVID-19 as well as other infectious diseases should stay high: hand hygiene, social distancing and staying home when sick are still important measures to follow. The coronavirus is spread mainly from person-to-person, usually via close contact with an infected person. Close contact is seen as a situation where people are closer than 2 metres to each other for the duration of 15 minutes.

COVID-19 is a droplet infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 that spreads through sneezing and coughing from people to people, and by way of contaminated surfaces and unwashed hands.