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On Monday, after the meeting of the Government Emergency Commission (VESK), it was proposed to release the traffic restrictions in the ring municipalities of Šiauliai, Alytus and Panevėžys. Although at the time Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyt aprobar promised to approve the proposal in government on Wednesday, it was ultimately postponed to next week.
The mayor of Šiauliai, Artūras Visockas, and the mayor of the city of Alytus, Nerijus Cesiulis tv3.lt, say that it is difficult to understand why the government still did not dare to make the long-awaited and promised decision.
Restrictions don’t work
The mayor of Alytus, N. Cesiulis, does not hide that on the Wednesday before the government meeting, he expected that the restrictions on the restriction of movement would finally be achieved. According to him, the city and the district are directly connected, so many residents are currently unable to access necessary services or desired goods due to restrictions.
“Thousands of people work in the city, live in the district or vice versa. Sometimes people find it difficult to understand that to cross the street, to a store from a district to a city, it is no longer possible. You have to drive a few miles to the district store. You can’t even buy some goods and services because they just aren’t in the area.
The same fishermen who complain that they cannot go to the area sit by the lake and fish. There is not a single person in a radius of a few kilometers sitting alone on the ice: what will you infect? There are questions, “says N. Cesiulis.
The movement restrictions, according to the mayor, are currently just a theory, and locals are coming up with all sorts of ways to trick officials into sneaking through checkpoints. Yes, in his opinion, the rulers deceive themselves and the people are forced to lie.
“People move, they come up with different reasons for driving. The same people who come to the city to work – after work they go to supermarkets for food, for beauty treatments. Actually, they can only go to and from the city. job.
People buy a heart disease kit and say I’m taking Mom and Dad to the area. In fact, he goes fishing, hunting, doing something else “, – the mayor of Alytus N. Cesiulis teaches tv3.lt.
He stood in the place of a fool
Currently, in Alytus, of the three municipalities, the highest number of patients per 100 thousand is registered. population: 364. The number in Alytus district is slightly lower: 208.6.
According to N. Cesiulis, these figures must be viewed through the prism of relatively intensive population testing.
“The number of infections in Alytus is praised to be one of the highest in those three municipalities, but if we look at how many tests we do, it is probably the highest in Lithuania.
I always give the following example from Dzūkija: if you go out into the forest to look for mushrooms, you will not pick a basket of mushrooms in ten minutes, but if you do it all day, you will pick. The same goes for testing. If you try all day, extra tests, you will find more ”, explains the mayor of the city.
The number of patients in Šiauliai per 100 thousand. the population is 230.2. This is probably the lowest number of all the circular municipalities. The mayor of the city A. Visockas does not hide the regret that, even after successfully managing the pandemic, Šiauliai remains forgotten.
“What is sadder for me, this disease affected Šiauliai first. But we were the first to leave. We have made additional efforts regarding the resolutions and orders that were in force at that time. We ourselves closed the life of the city more harder than necessary.Now we stand in the place of a fool.
The education system in Šiauliai suffers more than in other cities. What I expected: because the disease came to Lithuania through Šiauliai, that we got sick sooner and we could do and catch up with the whole educational process. It was not like that, “says A. Visockas.
Delayed decisions create tension
The mayor of Šiauliai himself says he does not understand the government’s decision to postpone the releases and wait until the indicators of all the municipalities in the ring are equalized.
“It seems to me that the reason for the decision to postpone is the inclusion of Vilnius and Kaunas in the general list. I am not against it, the logic is the same: circular municipalities. {…} We need to find out our address. Do you set movement restrictions and it follows that you may already have a completely different life in a local place when you hit a certain pace, or loosen the movement restrictions and talk about general stats?
Imagine that there would be 0 cases in Šiauliai and several hundred out of 100 thousand in Vilnius. population. It would be possible to walk outside Šiauliai without masks thanks to the Vilnius statistics, ”teaches A. Visockas.
In his opinion, so far the decisions related to quarantine lack logic and are not understood by the population. This is said to raise many questions, which he himself cannot answer for the Šiauliai community.
“Because when tensions start, they start everywhere. And when we want to vaccinate people, we may again have some concerns that Estonians, Danes and all the countries where governments have logically put things together and people understand.
The townspeople ask me and I have no explanation except: in that order. But how long can you say that? Another month, two, three? ”Asks the mayor of Šiauliai.
N. Cesiulis expresses a similar sentiment:
“I think the more the government pays this time, the worse the people will be. And after that, it’s very difficult to control the nation. To control or not will depend on the government.
We need to find some compromises, we can get to them. To further increase the scope of testing, to carry out educational activities. But don’t limit everything and say that we are waiting for the best Scenario A, which will or will not arrive this year. “
Final decisions await next week
Currently, the number of 238.8 cases per 100 thousand in Lithuania has been registered in the last 14 days. population. According to Prime Minister I. Šimonytė, the situation is improving.
“One can wait for next week, seeing that scenario plus C2, the kind of middle ground that allows us to talk about more liberalization of activities or some regulatory flexibility. We will have to consider under what conditions to extend the validity of the resolution, ”said I. Šimonytė.
Speaking about the movement between municipalities, I. Šimonytė considered that next week a decision can be made not only on several smaller municipalities, but also on the movement between other municipalities of the ring.
The head of government said there are several reasons why ministers did not consider releasing the movement on Wednesday.
“If you evaluate the color mark, you will see that in some cases the colors of the ring and the center of the city in the center are different because there are a different number of cases per 100,000. population. But there are also cases where the colors differ because the proportion of positive tests is very high, ”said I. Šimonytė.
According to her, this could mean several things. First, test more where coronavirus is most likely to be detected, such as in hot spots.
“The sooner municipalities start testing in general society, not only in a concentrated sample, where the probability of the virus is high, but also in general society to get a better picture, the more the numbers will be compared and the less differences will be, “declared I. Šimonytė.
According to the Prime Minister, the ministers discussed the issue, but decided to discuss it next week along with other quarantine changes. “I am very hopeful that during that week these differences will diminish or disappear completely and we will be able to talk about all the municipalities in the ring,” said I. Šimonytė.
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