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Veryga said Monday that he would propose to the government to extend the quarantine.
“Yes, I plan to propose and I already mentioned that there is no doubt that it will be extended,” the minister said at a remote press conference.
The politician said there was very little hope that the quarantine would be lifted in two weeks.
He said he had not decided how many weeks the quarantine could be extended.
What Christmas will be like, it’s hard to tell
A.Veryga said Monday that she couldn’t say what Christmas would be like this year because it was too early to discuss it.
“It takes patience, not three, but 8 or even 8 weeks, and sometimes more, to get things back on track and back to normal,” he said.
On Wednesday, A.Veryga will propose a slight change in the quarantine regime, but according to him, the changes will be cosmetic, aimed at avoiding attempts to circumvent the current procedure.
“We are receiving information that we are trying to rent swimming pools and the like under the pretext of renting the premises,” he said.
The first good signs
According to A.Veryga, last week there was an increase in the number of cases, the percentage of new positive cases detected, but not everything is so bad.
“But a good sign that growth was no longer exponential. This allows us to be very secretive that the situation is gradually stabilizing, ”said the minister. He said we’ll see this next week.
“But we can see the first good signs,” he said.
Lithuanian chief epidemiologist Loreta Ašoklienė told LRT Radio on Monday that the growth in the number of coronavirus cases in Lithuania is starting to slow down, there are signs that the situation is gradually stabilizing.
“There are signs that the situation is stabilizing and it will only take some time for the numbers to start to decline,” said the epidemiologist.
According to A.Veryga, although there are the first signs of stabilization, it is still not decreasing.
“The flow of patients to medical institutions is at least a week late, which means that the proportion of people who get sick will reach medical institutions in a week, the burden on doctors will not decrease,” said the minister, and emphasized that there are no preconditions to ease the quarantine regime.
VPN requires all procedures to be followed when purchasing tests
A group of health experts was convened by President Gitan Nauseda on Monday The government recommended the purchase of high-speed equipment. COVID-19 antigen tests to speed up infection detection.
Veryga said it would be very good.
“If I’m not mistaken, a group of government medical experts may have made recommendations and developed very specific algorithms where these rapid antigen tests could be used a couple of weeks ago,” he explained.
However, according to A.Veryga, acquisitions under all procedures must be carried out in approximately a month and a half, this is because the Public Procurement Service requires following the procedures.
According to A.Veryga, we could receive the tests according to the purchase of the European Commission, they could arrive in December.
Obstructs work
At a press conference on Monday, A. Veryga ironically said that he could thank various institutions that send inquiries to the ministry.
According to him, SAM has received 6 appeals from the Special Investigation Service, as well as the Financial Crimes Investigation Service, received inquiries from 73 members of Seimas, and many criticisms are received from the Public Procurement Service.
“I would just like to inform everyone that the inquiries are such that after a page or two very detailed questions: specify various conditions, collect information. It is for those who expect a good management of the situation that I want to inform you that all inquiries and demands are attended by people who have to coordinate laboratories today, make arrangements for the correct operation of the treatment facilities (…) I really want to thank to everyone again for this focused help ”. – said the Minister.
He added that he wanted to ask for real help, not help that “makes work difficult.”
“I will remind you that such increased care did not actually add health to a manager, which we no longer have today,” continued A. Veryga, referring to the late head of the national laboratory Vytautas Zimnickas.
“As a result of that investigation in quotation marks, we have lost a critical person who has left the ministry, who today is needed to coordinate the activities of the institutions, who is one of the members of my team,” he said, highlighting that other members of your team are falling.
The first mobile medical team is in Raseiniai
A.Veryga announced that the first medical team to return home with coronavirus patients began working in the Raseiniai district.
The mobile team should consist of a family doctor, a nurse and their assistant.
According to A Veryga, each municipality will have to form at least one mobile team.
On Monday, the minister provided the latest data related to the KoronaStopLT app.
So far, it has been downloaded by about 83,000 people. people, sent more than 60 contact messages with the sick.
Almost 2,000 are sick. Medical staff
Daiva Razmuvienė, a representative of the National Center for Public Health, said Monday that nearly 2,000 people are currently suffering from coronavirus. Medical staff.
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 2,882 cases have been recorded among doctors, currently attributed to being treated, 1992 doctors,” he said.
According to D.Razmuvienė, 55 percent. of the cases registered yesterday – asymptomatic.
“But that doesn’t mean they will become symptomatic tomorrow,” he said.
An NVSC spokeswoman said she would see if morbidity figures stabilize early next week.
What about people who get sick? According to D.Razmuvienė, experts will still have to decide how to behave them, who will provide recommendations.
During the last day, 1,152 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were recorded in Lithuania.
The NVSC reports that 8 cases of coronavirus deaths were received from medical institutions last day. Currently, the infection has claimed 285 lives.
SAM announced on Monday that 100,000 people are currently isolated in the country. people. These are people who have been diagnosed with coronavirus, people who have been in contact and come from affected areas.
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