After a visit to a public institution – a positive coronavirus test: ensures that the procedure was already surprising at the entrance

Some things surprised me

A Vilnius resident said his daughter had angina shortly before and on March 23. was hospitalized.

“As you know, a coronavirus test must first be done before going to bed and it was negative. March 25 we took her by car from the hospital and on March 26. we were registered for the production of personal documents at the Vilnius branch of the Migration Department, as she turned 16 on that day. I also had to update my ID. “

According to him, they also arrived at the scene by car, waited outside their line across the street, and went inside after check-in time.

“The most unpleasant thing is that the woman at the door did not measure the temperature, she only asked where we were going and we were just bubbling something that we were recording for a while. However, he did not have a computer where he could check if that place was really free at the time.

Second, I can’t imagine how you control the people who came to wait in a live queue because that opportunity remained. It still amazed me that when I picked up the document, they still asked me to put on a mask to confirm my identity, although the spread is certainly huge. It turned out to be very strange to me, ”he said of the dangerous experience for human health.

The Vilnius citizen added that he hoped for greater protection, as such an institution brings together many people not only from Lithuania, but also from other parts of the world.

“Instead of being able to identify myself with biometrics by adding a finger, I still had to lift the mask a bit. Finally, the daughter had just been discharged from the hospital and she certainly didn’t have a fight, but since she needed to be photographed, there were many risk factors for getting infected again. For example, the number of people in the room was not counted, their temperature was not measured at the entrance, etc. As far as I know, there are no exceptions under the quarantine procedure for a person to be inside such facilities without a mask.

You touch various surfaces there, naturally you want to repair your hair. It is not made for people to put themselves in pictures in the boxes. For example, my daughter and wife were at one table and some foreigners were immediately seated at another table. Not only did they sit next to each other, but they also had to use the same equipment that is not immediately disinfected after use. In a word, a person builds himself up as a naked man before a fight, when the mask is removed, the surfaces are not disinfected, etc. ”.

Per visit – coronavirus

So, the man explained, after this visit, the daughter is already on March 30. he felt the first symptoms of the disease. At that time, the Vilnius resident explained, she was still taking antibiotics and at first it was believed that it was the result of angina, because without going to the Migration Department there were no more contacts.

“We could no longer be infected anywhere because when we picked her up from the hospital, we immediately went home and the next day we went to the Migration Department. We also spent time at home during the holidays, and it was already 30 days. she began to feel weak. Doctors on April 2. signed up for the visit, took a coronavirus test and tested positive. April 4th my wife and I took this test and we also got infected.

But especially in this story, I want to emphasize that everything is done so irresponsibly in a public institution. I don’t see if that’s for austerity reasons, when I think two or three additional cleaners would be enough to help keep order there. Funny then those all the restrictions and prohibitions to celebrate Easter sound. We are very angry that it was enough to go get our identity documents and we got caught in a fight, even though we had been very successful in keeping up. “

The man said he currently suffers from a more severe form of coronavirus, suffers from a nighttime cough, and has compared the incidence of the virus to roller coasters.

“It already seems that it is not bad at all, as recovered, sitting in front of the computer for an hour to work, but quickly feeling that it is like ice cream in the sun. It doesn’t matter if you have a fever or not, but you always feel like you should, you feel a general weakness. I hope that after the announcement, this nonsense ends in that institution, ”he said.

Doubts that a person is infected with the Department of Migration

Representatives of the Migration Department indicated that the Department, while performing its functions under quarantine conditions and in order to protect customers and employees from possible risks, has temporarily modified the customer service procedures of the Migration Department. The procedure was modified taking into account the recommendations of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to control the spread of the coronavirus infection.

“The clients of the Migration Department were informed that during the national quarantine for the COVID-19 disease only electronic services are provided, the clients were asked not to postpone the visit to the migration department, to register the mask.

Customers were also warned that arrivals without prior tour reservation would not be accommodated. All the necessary information was published on the websites of the Department of Migration and in the announcements at the entrance of the service room. “

It was also indicated that the Migration Department had taken possible security measures: installation of partitions that separate customers from employees, signaling of customer waiting areas, at the entrance of the customer service hall and in clearly defined places. visible from the hall itself, on the workers’ desks, built disinfectant containers, instructed to use protective masks and disposable gloves, arranged so that customers are received at the entrance of the customer service room by an employee who will advise the customers and monitor customer flows to prevent people crowding.

“All the above measures are also observed in the Vilnius section of the Migration Department. At the entrance it is announced that clients will be accepted at the exact moment of their visit registration and clients will be attended exclusively with prior reservation. Workplaces are separated by partitions. To serve the customer immediately, the service of a customer takes as little time as possible, for example, for a passport or ATK, up to 15 minutes.

After each customer’s workplace is disinfected, there is a container of disinfectant liquid on each workbench, such as at the entrance to the service room. Before using the biometric equipment, the customer is requested to disinfect their hands, as the area of ​​the biometric equipment where fingerprints are taken cannot be cleaned with liquid. However, at the beginning of the service, the client is requested to briefly remove the protective mask, which is necessary to verify the identity of the person, and then the request is repeated by capturing a facial image with biometric equipment.

According to the representatives, these procedures are very short, following the procedure described, it would hardly be possible to become infected with coronavirus.

“There have been times when a family that came for the service had to be warned to follow the security requirements and supervise the service of its members. Because customers are admitted to the service room with a known reservation, their flows are controlled and body temperature is measured only by people with obvious cold symptoms (cough, runny nose).

We noted that there was no COVID-19 infected at work among the employees of the Vilnius branch. When evaluating the security measures against the coronavirus applied in the immigration department, we would very much doubt that the person you mentioned could have contracted COVID-19 in the Vilnius department. “