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The cabinet tentatively agreed on Monday that easing the quarantine could open beauty salons and non-food stores with separate entrances starting next Monday if a 20-square-meter area is provided for a customer or buyer.
The Minister of Economy Aušrinė Armonaitė suggests that it could be up to 300 m2. meters of shops, but stresses that this will be decided by the government.
Decisions are promised to be made at the national level, without excluding individual municipalities.
Employees will be screened before they start work, and the government has earmarked a total of $ 30 million for testing costs for small and medium-sized businesses. euros
The draft strategy for the release of quarantine restrictions envisages a total of four scenarios, broken down by morbidity rates, and consistent release steps in all areas, both at the national level and in the municipalities.
As morbidity rates improve, consideration is being given to allowing smaller non-food stores and beauty services, returning some primary and secondary school graduates to school, then opening cultural institutions, reducing meeting requirements, trade and services, etc. municipalities.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė promised that an offer would be submitted within a week regarding the opening of trade in the countryside, and decisions on the return of students to schools would be planned in the coming weeks.
The Prime Minister highlights that so far no individual dismissals have been decided in the municipalities pending the latest morbidity data. He argues that local mitigation could be applied to areas that would not lead to greater population mobility.
Following the tightening of the quarantine in Lithuania in mid-December, many stores in the country were closed, with the exception of food, sports and leisure facilities, restricted movement of people between municipalities and gatherings both at home and in places. public. A week ago, the Council of Ministers already allowed the resumption of activities for outdoor ski centers.
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