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The government decided on Monday to extend the quarantine until the end of this year and tighten its conditions. Professor K. Petrikonis said that the new measure may have an effect, but the most important thing now is to say that the situation in the country is extremely bad.
“Today, after the introduction of additional measures, it can be expected that they will be partially effective. But we have no message. Basically, we do not tell the Lithuanian people that we are living badly.
And the situation is so threatening that after 2 weeks, the health care system could crash and burn out. Because the hospitals are already full, around 45 hospitals that are currently treating coronavirus patients will be even more crowded, ”he said.
An LSMU professor told Knowledge Radio that the people who will not be able to receive health services will suffer the most.
“The number of those places can be scaled up, but the staff and the entire infrastructure don’t allow us to do it as fully as possible. And to get those results, we have to limit other health care measures. And people won’t get help because of other diseases, “he said.
K. Petrikonis emphasized once again that the situation in Lithuania is extremely bad.
“We just realized that today we were in a bad situation. If a few weeks ago we had thought that these measures would work, the conscience of the Lithuanian people would reach the required level, but today we all have to say that it is wrong,” he repeated once again. .
As an example, K. Petrikonis presented Ireland, which is twice the size of Lithuania, which coped well with the coronavirus, and there are around 200 cases per day.
“And we have more than 2,000 a day. And how many more we have not identified, certainly there are many more. And people should understand,” he said.
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