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“This does not mean that the quarantine as it is now will be fully effective next month,” the prime minister said after a government meeting that extended the quarantine unchanged until February 24 on February 24. – However, this means that the Government has no reason to change the regime according to the classification of situations already discussed in public. According to her, we are in the worst category, despite the fact that the situation has improved significantly. “
According to I. Šimonytė, the situation is improving, but not enough to talk about the revocation of the quarantine.
According to the Prime Minister, the changes that could come into effect will be discussed weekly, depending on morbidity. Currently, the impact on the epidemiological situation of the facilities adopted last week is being monitored, which allowed social bubbles to form and more children to study at a distance in schools.
“The situation has stopped improving as fast as in the first weeks, because the quarantine has the best effect from the beginning,” he said.
When asked why it was decided to keep the restrictions on circulation and if it is not an excessive measure, I. Šimonytė stated that the main reason why the regime remains as it is: according to the criteria, we are not at the stage in the that restrictions on mobility could be released.
“There are dozens of municipalities where the situation does not seem to have improved at all,” he stressed.
Ski centers need a few more days of debate
The proposals of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation were unveiled on Tuesday to allow the renewal of beauty services, smaller stores on February 8 and open ski resorts on February 1.
Commenting on this, I. Šimonytė emphasized that no decisions have been made, no specific dates have been set.
“Proposals are prepared in accordance with the mandate of the ministry. Of course, with a sufficiently responsible assessment of the situation and the composition of certain stages, there is a discussion about the ski centers ”, he said.
According to I. Šimonytė, there are some nuances regarding the conditions in which this activity can be possible in the field: he emphasized that he did not want the opening of such centers to become an incentive to move from one municipality to another.
“Will we be able to find a regime that satisfies the ski resorts themselves, that is, that they see the sense of opening up, and also the epidemiological situation, will it take a few more days of discussion, then we can get back to that,” he said .
There are no guarantees regarding vaccines.
On Wednesday, when asked if it is realistic to vaccinate two-thirds of the Lithuanian population against coronavirus in mid-summer, as President Gitanas Nausėda said last Friday, I. Šimonytė said it is realistic “if we have a vaccine for two – thirds of the Lithuanian population “.
“But if we will have a vaccine for two thirds of the Lithuanian population, of course, after receiving it not on June 30, but steadily throughout the entire period, I cannot confirm it with the information available so far,” said the prime minister. . .
According to I. Šimonytė, if 100 or 200 thousand people had to be vaccinated per day, it is obvious that we do not have and could not mobilize so many resources.
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“If enough vaccines were available now, according to the plan that the Ministry of Health has and is discussing with the municipalities, it would not be a big problem to vaccinate so many people a day, we need to have a vaccine that is. I have not, “he stressed.
Earlier, the presidency has shared estimates that in order to vaccinate 70 percent by mid-summer. Lithuanians should be vaccinated in February 10 thousand. per day, and since April – 34 thousand. during the day.
On Wednesday, the government extended the quarantine in Lithuania until March 1.
For the moment, without other changes, this means that the restrictions on circulation and circulation between municipalities will be maintained.
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