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The Seimas approved these amendments with 75 votes in favor, 14 against and 28 abstentions.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, considering the amendments to this law, declared that active testing is the only effective means to control the spread of the virus.
“There has been a lot of very strange speculation here that someone is going to test something by force, but you have to understand one very simple thing: no means other than active testing will guarantee control of the epidemic,” the prime minister said at the session. of the Seimas. .
He emphasized that the current situation in Lithuania remains complicated due to the spread of new strains of coronavirus, which is why, according to the Prime Minister, increasing the scope of testing is a necessary measure for the Government in the fight against the pandemic.
“The British variety is spreading aggressively in eastern Lithuania, which is spreading much faster and for some it may mean a much more severe outcome of the disease. This morning I received information that two cases of South African mutations have already been identified. in Lithuania and that there may be even more, ”said I. Šimonytė.
Meanwhile, Mindaugas Lingė, a member of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic faction National Union, claimed that vaccination and testing are the two most effective weapons in the fight against a pandemic, and it would be irresponsible not to use them. The health checks of workers, according to the conservative, are already mandatory by law.
“Therefore, to oppose this law is to oppose common sense,” said M. Lingė from the Seimas rostrum.
Among the members of the opposition factions, Dainius Kepenis, a member of the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens (LVŽS) faction, was the most active in opposing the amendments to this law, claiming that such amendments were in conflict with the Constitution . Meanwhile, another LVŽS member Giedrius Surplys claimed that he did not support this law because, according to him, it is much more important to educate about the importance of testing.
“Perhaps it would be more valuable to spread the message that tests do not hurt, to explain that they have no consequences,” said G. Surplys in the Seimas session.
He stressed that he was in favor of testing, but did not support this particular law as it could lead to mistrust in COVID-19 testing.
“I am very afraid that this law will put the government on its feet, because, paradoxically, it will increase distrust in the tests,” said the peasant.
After the adoption of the amendments to the law, the Government has the right to additionally establish a list of work and areas of activity in which employees who are periodically examined and / or controlled to detect a contagious disease for which an emergency state and / or quarantine declare that they are authorized to work.
The amendment to the law stipulates that COVID-19 testing would be mandatory in cases where an employee has or may have contracted a COVID-19 infection, when there has been a COVID-19 outbreak in a company or when a company company is required to undergo periodic preventive tests. Employees required to undergo a health examination are expected to be identified by the National Public Health Center (NVSC), which must inform both the employee and the employer of the mandatory examination.
It is also envisaged that an employee who refuses to undergo the test will have the opportunity to work remotely or be transferred to another job at the same workplace that he can work according to his health status. However, if that nature of work was not possible, the employee would be removed from the job.
The amendment to the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act also provides that additional health examinations of employees due to a communicable disease for which an emergency and / or quarantine has been declared at the state level will be funded from the state budget. according to the Government.
The drafters of the amendment claim that it would ensure a safer release and organization of individual jobs and activities, allow for the timely detection of infections, isolation of exposed persons, or other measures for the control of communicable diseases. In this way, the goal is to reduce the risk of the spread of communicable diseases and major disease outbreaks, leading to disruption of continuity in the workplace.
The amendments to the law will take effect on March 26.
The situation is commented on by prof. Eduardas Vaitkus:
This amendment to the law raises too many unanswered questions. The law says that “if there is a suspicion of COVID-19, workers will have to be tested.” So who should be suspected? The person himself? Or maybe a doctor if a person comes to him? And if he dont do it. Or maybe a co-worker because the person is going to speak – that sore throat? Or maybe the administration?
So who will be the “whistleblower” – co-worker, administration, doctor? Who can suspect? And to whom should the suspicion be passed – to the administration? Or maybe SAM? Or maybe Covid- Line 19? And suspicion will be enough. Covid-19 can start to be tested for all 600-650 thousand people in Lithuania during the year, within 6 hours or maybe 48 hours. Therefore, this law would be “applied” in Lithuania 650,000 times a year. At the same time, it should not be forgotten that the famous Military Police Law provides for the right of the military police to break into your home because “there is a suspicion of illness.
This law appears to become an integral part of the ongoing process. I believe that the process began on March 20, 2020, during a secret government meeting in which, after hearing classified information, it was decided to issue a quarantine. One would BELIEVE that this law is intended to control the spread of the corona virus. And that’s (?) Temporary. But, on the other hand, the question arises: is it not a movement towards a totalitarian state, when the human body no longer becomes the property of man but of the state? So it would be logical that mandatory vaccination was the next step. You also need to remember PCR tests, which are particularly sensitive. This test will be positive if the test substance contains only 100 virus particles.
However, with this amount of coronavirus, a person is not a source of infection, he is not dangerous for others because he cannot infect another. A person can transmit an infection if several hundred viral RNAs are found in him. That is, several times more than is sufficient to obtain a positive result. Therefore, sometimes even up to 97 percent. PCR tests can be false positives (depending on the number of RNA duplicates). Clinically and epidemiologically false positive. SAM has been stubbornly silent and silent on this subject, which is causing bad thoughts. After all, the WHO has twice emphasized the need to evaluate human clinical symptoms, not just PCR tests, to determine COVID-19. Therefore, government action sometimes gives me the impression that coronavir is intended to be used (attempted) for other purposes.
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