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“It will take us at least a week to see if the situation stabilizes. This week, we will definitely see an increase in cases, then we will see how the situation changes, and only in a week or two we will see how the situation changes in hospitals. Even if the situation improves epidemiologically, some people do not have symptoms, it takes a while to reach medical institutions, “said the minister on the Delfi Day program.
Certainly, three weeks of quarantine will not be enough for the situation to improve significantly, according to A. Veryga.
And the Prime Minister has mentioned and cited the calculations of scientists, how long it takes to introduce certain measures and how long it takes to get out of them. It usually takes six to eight weeks. Those three weeks will probably not be the end point, “said the Health Minister.
He said that he could not even promise now that we would no longer accept Christmas in quarantine: “I cannot make such promises, all the more so since it is no longer up to me or this government.”
According to the minister, if the introduction of quarantine does not improve the situation after a few weeks, stricter restrictions may be imposed.
“In the spring, there were no grocery stores, the process of distance education and the like were completely transferred to distance education,” the minister said.
Some European countries have introduced a curfew. If it were decided to do it also in Lithuania, the restrictions could be particularly severe, a state of emergency would have to be declared. However, Mr. Veryga hopes that such measures are not necessary.
“An emergency is a last resort and we still have the tools to adapt,” Veryga said.
“The state of emergency allows a lot of restrictions on the rights of citizens, both in terms of information and movement and, as far as I know, there may be some political restrictions,” he said.
A. Veryga admits that the system is now beginning to reach the limits: it is becoming increasingly difficult for patients to call the coronavirus hotline and almost all the possibilities of the laboratories and mobile checkpoints are being used.
“We have already reached the ceiling due to the capacity of the laboratories, we are investigating a large number, up to 12 thousand are carried out per day.” investigation. The reagents are not the biggest problem, they are enough for the moment, “said the minister on the Delfi Day program.
According to him, the beds for coronavirus patients in hospitals are already occupied, so medical institutions are reorganizing other departments.
„Covid’ines beds that we have filled, now the institutions are reorganizing the other departments to adapt them to patients with COVID-19. The devices aren’t the biggest problem either, most of them are probably not occupied by COVID-19 patients at the moment, but that doesn’t mean they are out of work, they are used by other patients. So far, we really don’t have many ventilated patients, out of the nearly 700 patients, only a few dozen. There are more than 1000 devices, “explained A. Veryga.
If the need arises, according to the minister, Lithuania could turn to other countries for help.
“Europe has a mechanism to reach out to all countries and ask for the resources that are available at that moment, whether they are teams or people. If such a need arises, Lithuania would apply through that mechanism, “he said on the” Delfi diena “program.
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