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“We will try to carry out this procedure in some way, but the difficult thing is that we don’t have too many commissioners who would like to go home with COVID-19 patients. Maybe there are, let’s say, those commissioners, but tragically there are. a lack of necessary security measures to go to those patients, ”Nijolė Juknienė, chair of the electoral commission of the Raseiniai-Kėdainiai electoral district, told LRT radio on Tuesday morning.
According to her, currently 30 self-isolated and sick people have expressed their desire to vote, and the conditions for voting will also be created in the Blinstrubiškės welfare home, where coronavirus has been detected in 40 people.
In total, the county has 43 sets of clothing needed to go to coronavirus patients.
“It is provided centrally, but there are very few of them: there is very little for the Raseiniai district, because we have a particularly difficult situation and also we asked the Central Election Commission about 100 games, but we only received 10. This is exactly what is missing from our constituency commission. district of the Central Election Commission and the Ministry of Health “, – said N. Juknienė.
She hopes the constituency to supplement the protective measures will arrive before the start of the home vote on October 9-10.
According to the chairwoman of the commission, the elections in the district, despite the virus, started successfully, but the commission is not fully staffed: several commission members also fell ill with COVID-19, several are in self-isolation. Some of them will go back to work at the end of the week.
“If it turns out that there is a shortage of commission members, then we will have the opportunity to borrow members from neighboring districts,” said N. Juknienė.
According to her, on the first day of early voting on Monday in the Raseiniai district, 120 people expressed their will, previously during the early voting about 800 people voted here, so the result is not bad.
In the Raseiniai district, the incidence of coronavirus currently reaches almost a thousand cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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