A.Veryga: after June 16, quarantine cannot be extended



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“The COVID-19 committee will discuss today, attorneys are gathering briefs on whether an emergency would be sufficient and whether quarantine could be lifted.” Hopefully if everything goes well, if the situation does not worsen, there is an opportunity not to extend it on June 16, “A. Veryga said in an interview with Lithuanian Radio on Wednesday.

“If everything goes well and continues as it is now, if those numbers fall, we hope that quarantine is no longer necessary,” the minister said.

In Lithuania, several cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in recent days. Currently, 58 patients are being treated by COVID-19 in hospitals, two of them in resuscitation rooms. As of Tuesday, a total of 1,682 cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed in the country.


To control the spread of the coronavirus, the quarantine in Lithuania was announced on March 16 and extended until June 16.

The government has approved epidemiological criteria for the revocation of quarantine. According to them, the total incidence of coronavirus is 100,000. the population must not increase by at least 90% in the last 14 days from the date of approval of the criteria. New cases of coronavirus detected during the week may be associated with localized and controlled outbreaks.



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