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“Now I don’t want to name any specific solutions that are under consideration, because if I name them, they will become headlines and some kind of annotations for future decisions. I would like to announce the decisions on when they will be made. I hope it will be tomorrow, ”said the Head of Government in the Seimas on Thursday.
He asked that decisions be expected on Friday morning.
According to her, first of all, the Government wants to wait for the amendments to the Law on Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases of the People’s Republic of Lithuania signed by President Gitanas Nausėda regarding mandatory tests of employees, and then take all the necessary decisions. at the same time.
“I believe that the decisions will definitely be made tomorrow morning. We want to wait for the signing of the Communicable Diseases Law and at the same time make those decisions that are related to the mandatory tests of certain activities or works,” reported I. Šimonytė.
The Prime Minister has promised that as soon as these decisions are made, she will announce the changes.
“Any deliberation, any speculation in such circumstances, when the situation is already so tense, people are tired and really need at least some deliberation, which perhaps is raised in the margins by someone as good ideas, and someone is immediately rejected .. .
I really don’t think we need that much public discussion. We will make coordinated decisions and then we will make them public ”, assured the Prime Minister.
It will suggest a closer examination of the sites where PAR mutation cases have been identified.
At the same time, the Prime Minister noted that we should get more information on the responses of other samples tested due to suspected PAR mutation cases on Friday. The quarantine conditions in which we will continue to live may also depend on this. It will be suggested to focus more on the places where the first cases of this type were registered.
“So far, only information about the cases that have been identified is known. Tomorrow there will be answers about others where there are suspicions. Probably that will definitely be related (quarantine changes – aut. past) and with that, but first we have to find out where that variety is found. Now we know that it is about Kėdainiai and Vilnius, more precisely, Grigiškės.
We will also try to offer organizational solutions that allow us to control the situation in those places, of course, without coercion, but with the firm hope that people will seize that opportunity. We would like to believe that we will not detect excessive spread in those additional evaluations that the laboratory is still conducting.
But now I can’t say anything at the moment, “urged I. Šimonytė to wait until Friday.
When asked whether there is a possibility that due to the spread of the so-called “British” virus strain in Lithuania, as well as the first cases of the PAR strain, the country’s borders will be closed, I. Šimonytė replied: “ People who are citizens of the Republic of Lithuania Whatever solutions come to the Republic of Lithuania ”.
The cabinet already met for an informal meeting Thursday to discuss further steps in handling the pandemic. The ministers also gathered for an informal meeting on the coronavirus situation before Wednesday’s weekly meeting, but did not decide on changes to the quarantine regime.
Prime Minister I. Šimonytė later said that the government does not intend to release the quarantine in the near future, but may decide on a further adjustment this week.
“If there will be additional restrictions on activities than those currently in place, that is, a tightening of the quarantine, the government will discuss further and, if decisions are needed, they will be made tomorrow or Friday morning,” the prime minister said.
