Veryga assessed whether the Seimas members who posed for the mass photo had not violated the quarantine rules – a good question

“Well, it’s really not very easy to assess, because the Seimas members spent all day in the Seimas room. And of course that communication between them is very different and it would be good to avoid such massive gatherings in one place. And, perhaps, it is certainly not the best and most supportive example for the public ”, A. Veryga told Delfi Diena.

He said politicians should set an example to the public. When asked if, in his opinion, the MPs who stopped to take that photo had not violated the quarantine rules, A. Veryga replied:

“Good question. I don’t know. Still, the Seimas room is considered a workplace, it is not a kind of public place where the number of meetings is limited, because the Seimas members meet there to work,” he said. the Minister.

According to him, there are no meeting rules within workplaces.

“Unfortunately, the Seimas has not established such mechanisms to work remotely, which is recommended and indicated. If there were such working mechanisms for the members of the Seimas, which would probably require an adjustment of the Statute of the Seimas, then perhaps it could be said that this is a violation, ”A. Veryga told journalist Kristina Pocyte.

You can listen to the entire conversation with him today at 3pm on the “Delfi Diena” program.

R. Šalaševičiūtė: I didn’t even go to the cemetery

When the Seimas member, Rimante Šalaševičiūtė, detected the COVID-19 virus, the Seimas member said that she did not understand how it could have happened, because she did not participate in any celebration, there were no meetings or encounters.

“I did not even go to the cemetery during the celebrations to honor the dead, I also very rarely go to the shops, I produce it myself,” the MP told Eltai.

He said he feels fine and has no symptoms.

The parliamentarian took the invitation of Seimas Spokesperson Viktoras Pranckietis and took the COVID-19 test, and on Wednesday found out the answer, after which she had to isolate herself. The BNS news agency was the first to report R. Šalaševičūtė’s infection in COVID-19.

“I am in self-isolation and will not be able to participate in the first session of the new Seimas. I didn’t even manage to move into a new office, “he told Eltai.

Although R. Šalaševičiūtė regretted not being able to participate in the first session of the Seimas, the policy said that it understood that it was necessary to comply with the requirements and protect the health of others, so it would act with great responsibility.

ELTA recalls that until now the infection by COVID-19 has been confirmed to Valerijus Simulikas, member of the Union of Peasants and Greens of Lithuania, Paulius Saudargas, to the conservative Irina Rozova, representative of the Polish Lithuanian Electoral Campaign, and new member of the Evelina Dobrovsk Freedom Party.