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“Now we are trying to devise such a compensation mechanism,” the deputy minister said Tuesday at a meeting of the Seimas Rural Affairs Committee. – Currently it is estimated that if there is compensation, 24 million will be needed. EUR. “
According to him, another 2 million. € 1 million is needed to provide money to farms for disinfection and cleaning work.
E. Visontas stated that responsible officials did not expect tissues in Lithuania to become infected with the coronavirus so quickly.
“The situation is really tense,” he said.
The worst situation is currently in the tissue farm of the Jonava Danmink district company, an emergency situation was introduced in this municipality on Monday.
To stop the spread of the virus, 40,000 are expected to sleep. won.
“Currently, the farm has around 2.5 thousand. Due to COVID-19 dead or dead tissues, it is planned to put up to 4.5 thousand of them to sleep every day, ”said Marius Masiulis, Head of the Emergency Department of the State Food and Veterinary Service.
The Deputy Minister of Agriculture says that an agricultural support mechanism is currently being considered and that Danmink will have funds due to the emergency imposed.
“We need to find money first, but, as you know, the government has changed and I cannot speak for a new government,” Viscon said.
Animals infected with coronavirus have not yet been identified in other tissue farms in the country. On Sunday, two coronavirus-infected employees were reported from a tissue farm in Radviliškis district, but there is no data that the animals were also infected.
COVID-19 on farms will continue to spread
Meanwhile, Česlovas Tallat-Kelpša, the head of the Vilkija farm in Jonava district, which grows tissues, and the head of the Lithuanian Association of Fur Breeders, warns that coronavirus infections will inevitably spread to other tissue farms. .
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nootr./Cheslovas Tallat-Kelpsha
He claims that this will happen due to insufficiently rapid tests and the rapid spread of COVID-19 among people throughout Lithuania.
“The question here is not if it will arrive, but when it will arrive,” said the businessman.
According to him, the owners of tissue farms are not epidemiologists and do not know how to deal with different situations, but only receive “rules and instructions” from the authorities.
Tallat-Kelpša said that the coronavirus spread on his farm due to the fact that people in Lithuania do not get sufficient tests due to the disease.
“Now we buy the reagents ourselves and we negotiate with the doctors so that they come to the farm and check our people,” said the owner of the farm.
The impression is that we are not talking about a profitable business, but about a social welfare company.
According to him, the tests used are not certified, so if you get positive results, another test must be done at a state laboratory, which takes time.
“You can’t wait a week to find out if a person is sick or not,” Talat-Kelpša said.
Andrius Vyšniauskas, a member of the Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs, criticized the sector for its irresponsible approach.
“The impression is that we are not talking about a profitable business, but about a welfare company that is asking for help because it cannot do anything by itself,” said the conservative.
Photo by Lukas Balandi / 15min / Andrius Vyšniauskas
He said that many companies in Lithuania that respect their reputation and people’s health buy the tests themselves, and some companies do not even admit people in workplaces without a negative COVID-19 test.
Ms. Tallat-Kelpša emphasized that the tests they carried out were not certified and were legal, so tests from state health institutions were necessary to obtain official approval.
“I am sorry, Director, that cannot be the case. If you buy the service from a private clinic, it is a completely legal test,” replied A. Vyšniauskas.
Are mutations dangerous?
Miglė Gabrielaitė, a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, who attended the meeting, warned that in Denmark, where the spread of the coronavirus in tissues was first observed, it occurred on a very large scale.
According to her, research shows that an infected tissue can infect up to 90 percent of a farm. won.
“Compared to the prevalence in the population, which is around 5 percent. In Denmark this is potentially a much bigger epidemic, ”said M. Gabrielaitė.
According to her, despite the fears, studies have shown that COVID-19 mutations in tissues are unlikely to have a significant impact on the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Audinių ūkis
However, this does not mean that it is not necessary to protect tissues from disease, the researcher said.
“It is not necessary to be afraid of mutations, it is normal, but to allow it to happen constantly, there is an additional danger in a host other than a human being,” said M. Gabrielaitė.
M. Masiulis, representative of the State Food and Veterinary Service, stated that Lithuania would send samples of coronavirus detected in tissue farms for international testing.
“We are almost convinced that the problem here was that the person was contaminating the tissues. This mutation does not occur so fast as to affect the development of the vaccine ”, said the specialist.
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