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The adjacent bars Bardakas and Sanatorija, located dozens of meters from the Ministry of Health, were the focus of the National Center for Public Health. On Thursday, epidemiologist Daiva Razmuvienė said that nine new cases of coronavirus had recently been linked to these bars and called on the Vilnius municipality to consider limiting the bars’ opening hours.
“There have been calls from employees about why we lie that people are sick, but we continue to work in complete peace. Now, both vendors and people who booked events, birthdays, say why they did not warn me that they have some kind of fireplace here Although we only hear about western news and information posted on the Facebook wall, ”Matas Puodžiūnas, a representative from the Sanatorija bar, told BNS.
It says Bardakas and Sanatorija received a request from the NVSC only on Thursday for all employees to be tested for the coronavirus, although they said the tests had been done before.
According to him, the NVSC reported that a person with coronavirus visited the Sanatorium in the bar on September 25, that is, three weeks ago.
“We invite you to a dialogue, but only today we write; if you wish, we can talk to you through Zoom, because we have a big load. We want to give us the facts, because we do not even understand if there was that fireplace here yesterday, or in the middle September, or at the beginning ”, said a representative of the Sanatorium.
According to him, all the required security measures are taken by three popular bars run by the co-owners: Bardakas, Sanatorija Materialistė and the newly opened Conductors – they are disinfected every other day, the flow of visitors is limited to the number of seats, everyone must use masks when not eating or drinking: they are distributed free to those who do not. In addition, the bars are equipped with thermal imaging cameras that monitor the temperature of the entrances, and the disinfectant is distributed in disposable packages.
Bardakas and Sanatorija were closed in early August when a coronavirus was detected in a Bardakas employee. Then, after monitoring nearly 50 workers, no more infections were detected. Currently, according to M. Puodžiūnas, NVSC does not provide more accurate data on customer infections.
He says people are very sensitive to information from epidemiologists and currently there are virtually no visitors, DJs refuse to play, and limiting opening hours to midnight would deprive bars of 80-95 percent. revenue and would be forced to close.
“Now we seem to be a precedent in the city, why all the bars should be closed, even though we have neither the staff nor we have heard of the infected visitors.” Previously reported: a person may have come to you that day, remove all employees. We quarantine everyone for two weeks, replacing them with those who did not work. Now, for the first time, we have heard of those numbers. I don’t know if those people just go here or how. I read a bit when a salesperson gets sick at Maxima; after all, it doesn’t advertise Maxima on the fireplace, because we don’t even talk about employee illnesses, ”M. Puodžiūnas was surprised.
According to him, the goal is to ensure the observance of distances by limiting the number of visitors to the number of seats: “Sanatorium” accepts a maximum of 30 people, “Bardak” – about 100, “Materialistic” – about 90, visitors inmates order drinks without masks.
“If they go to the bathroom, for example, we encourage them to wear it, but then the disputes start. I ordered a cocktail, why do I have to wear?” The hardest part is controlling those disputes internally (…). We plan to continue working. But how many people to let in, or not to take off their masks, we don’t know, we don’t have a clear position from the state, ”said M. Puodžiūnas.
Eimantas Daukša, director of the Lumina LT company, which runs Bardakas bar, stated that he had received a call from NVSC on Tuesday and presented a list of employees.
“They mention that there are one or two cases, they are probably talking about the people who visited. Because we do not have a single employee who is sick today, we have communicated with everyone, there are no people who have symptoms, “said E. Daukša.
And we follow everything specified by the Ministry of Health, in addition, we take additional things: we build a thermographic camera, we also measure the temperature of employees, we perform disinfection. We also limit the number of people: at Bardake we count the number of visitors according to the number of seats, around 100. Usually there were several times more, “he said.
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