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According to data from the Department of Statistics, the lowest morbidity is currently in the municipality of Rietavas, where it reaches 55 cases per 100,000. population in two weeks, the highest in Visaginas, where the indicator reaches 909.9.
The mayor of Rietavas, Antanas Černeckis, says that it would really be possible to open schools and shops in the municipality if movement restrictions were maintained.
Virginijus Andrius Bukauskas, director of the Visaginas administration, affirms that the situation in small municipalities is changing very rapidly and one approach can drastically change morbidity, so the proposal to open separate municipalities is critical.
Supports release without leaving movement restrictions.
The mayor of Rietavas, A. Černeckis, says his municipality has gone through all the stages: from highest to lowest morbidity, and now the expected releases.
“There are no infections during the second week, there were one or two cases. We could really open kindergartens and schools and nothing would happen,” the mayor told BNS.
According to him, Rietavas was helped by the restriction to move outside the municipality, since it prevented people from entering and leaving other cities. According to A. Černeckis, this restriction should remain for the time being, especially if the opening of a small business in the municipality is allowed.
“The quarantine, that stop not to drive outside, apparently paid off,” he said.
“If they opened hairdressers, salons, shops, there would be movement of other municipalities, if there were no restrictions, and then this achievement of ours would be reversed very quickly,” said the mayor.
According to Algirdas Meiženis, Mayor of Šilalė District Municipality, his municipality has followed a similar path, which, having previously been in the first position, currently has the second lowest incidence of 105 cases. The mayor says he would support different quarantine requirements.
“It just came to our attention then. … We appreciate it, because we have already experienced that wave,” he said.
In the Rokiškis district, the incidence of COVID-19 is currently the second highest: 815.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, but the mayor of the municipality Ramūnas Godeliauskas affirms that he supports the idea of differentiating the quarantine requirements in the municipalities .
“I continue to support that idea and I support it,” he said.
According to the mayor, the morbidity statistics in the municipality are grown in two hot spots, so it is not a massive spread and the head of the municipality hopes to control it quickly.
“Now there are no new cases in one place or another for several days. I think the number will decrease significantly after a week, when people will recover, ”said R. Godeliauskas.
Critics say it would demotivate and difficult to implement
The director of the administration of Visaginas says that in small municipalities, the situation can be changed with a single chimney, so that the release of individual municipalities would be impractical and difficult.
“If we take it specifically by municipalities, I don’t think it is entirely correct. If we talk about some bigger regions, Samogitia, Aukštaitija, Dzūkija, Suvalkija and maybe Vilnius, Kaunas, big cities, but it is also a question. But if you look at the statistics, it changes every day, ”said Virginijus administration director Andrius Bukauskas.
He said the government should introduce exemptions everywhere because current conditions discriminate against some institutions and encourage shadow businesses.
“Let’s understand that people can’t not cut,” he said.
Unlike Rietavas, according to VA Bukauskas, the movement restriction in Visaginas caused damage, because it is the most densely populated Lithuanian municipality.
“That closure, I would say, is much worse, because our municipality is the most densely populated municipality in Lithuania,” he said.
The incidence also increases with virus outbreaks in large establishments.
Rolandas Janickas, mayor of the Ukmergė district, also criticized the proposal. According to him, the experience of the spring showed that the opening of beauty services and small shops would not represent a greater threat than the supermarkets that currently operate. According to him, people are already tired of the quarantine and a different treatment would demotivate them even more.
“It just came to our knowledge then. People get tired, they get tired of starting to look for solutions,” said the mayor.
“I think it will really anger and demotivate. Still, we cannot close the services that people need. (…) Will our people have to go to another area to cut their hair illegally, because there is a hairdresser?” .
According to him, many lonely people live in the district, their health has deteriorated due to restrictions in the provision of health services, and people have been delayed in applying.
He argued that the state should provide stricter isolation conditions as the virus spreads through secondary contacts. Meanwhile, in the district of Ukmergė, where morbidity is the fourth highest in Lithuania, reaching 618.2 cases per 100,000. population.
“We are a great crossroads: our employees work in Vilnius, Kaunas, and a lot of industry comes to us from other districts. Migration is happening, companies are working ”, commented the mayor about the reasons for the high morbidity.
The government intends to consider easing quarantine restrictions next week. One of the proposals is the possibility of applying exemptions according to morbidity in different municipalities.
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