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In an interview published on Info TV on Thursday, Prime Minister I. Šimonytė described the situation with the incidence of the coronavirus as not as tense as at the end of 2020, but it is deteriorating.
“Every day between 50 and 70 new patients are admitted to hospitals. Most of those people are almost 90 percent. – They are not vaccinated. I would like to emphasize that once again when it comes to the effects of vaccines,” the prime minister told Info.
Hospitals, he said, are filling up at a rate similar to that of October last year.
“It will depend a lot on how many cases increase. If the number of cases is somewhat more stable, it will probably be more stable after a few weeks, but you have to bear in mind that on September 1, when the students will return to schools, they will have education of contact ”, emphasized I. Šimonytė.
He said that in Israel, the number of cases of pupils returning to school has accelerated significantly, which means that the situation, according to the head of government, will need to be assessed as autumn accelerates.
“Even if we see stabilization now, it will still be necessary to monitor the situation after September 1,” explained I. Šimonytė.
He says the government’s options are overrated: convincing people to get vaccinated is everyone’s responsibility.
Speaking of the restrictions already presented to the public, which have been awaiting since September 13, the prime minister said that the restrictions would be lifted if the epidemiological situation improved.
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“Preparations must be made so that restrictions can be introduced because they are agreed, accepted and published. If vaccination rates happened to ‘break’ the case curve down and we would clearly see that hospitals are no longer filling up, and maybe they start to be emptied, then no one will introduce restrictions due to restrictions.
After all, the government does not put restrictions because it is a kind of manic government, which has nothing to do and wants to impose restrictions on everyone, as sometimes critics or part of society think, ”said I. Šimonytė.
When asked how companies complaining that the government’s inability to persuade the public to vaccinate them would make them scapegoats would respond, the Prime Minister responded by noting that the government’s options on these issues are limited.
“Maybe we are emphasizing a little on the government’s ability to persuade people to do things like get vaccinated. The government can make decisions, legal acts, binding instructions, propose laws to the Seimas; it is the government’s responsibility, but if there is no Compulsory vaccination in Lithuania and it is not available anywhere except in certain professions, then it is our common responsibility ”, emphasized the Prime Minister.
He said he believed that convincing people to get vaccinated was everyone’s job, including businesses.
“You can be mad at the government, it works well, it works badly, it doesn’t convince everyone to the last to get vaccinated, but if the state has to introduce quarantine like it did at the end of last year, business would suffer even more. I think that part of the business understands it perfectly, so basically already now, without being forced to do anything, they have made decisions that from now on they will accept clients who have immunity or have been examined ”, added I. Šimonytė.
See the full Info TV interview with the Prime Minister here:
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