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“The government meeting will discuss how the pandemic will be handled further,” Prime Minister Rasa Jakilaitienė told BNS.
Starting at 1:30 p.m., a ministerial meeting will take place in the Government, and material will be prepared for the Government meeting, which is scheduled to be announced soon.
On Friday, as soon as the Seimas received the authority to act, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and the ministers discussed with experts new measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys BNS said that restrictions on the movement of people, vaccination, beds in medical institutions and the work of nursing and care institutions will be discussed. He said experts had suggested translating new “serious measures at the national level” but did not reveal whether it was a curfew.
I. Šimonytė said earlier this week that to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, it will be necessary to tighten quarantine conditions and promised to listen to the opinions of experts.
Dust: proposal for “serious measures at the national level”
Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys said on Saturday December 12 that experts in the management of COVID-19 had proposed the adoption of “serious measures at the national level.”
“The experts seem to be trying to show us and tell us that the time has come to take serious national measures, not local ones, point by point, because we have just taken control of our own hands,” Dulkys told BNS on Saturday.
He said he could not yet specify what restrictions the government would consider on Sunday, but stressed that one of them would target the movement of people.
“Just what we discuss with the experts, we look at the current figures, the current situation, we know that we will need measures aimed at the movement of people, we will need internal work tools related to vaccination, hospital beds, nursing, care facilities, we will discuss the institutions educational.
I can only name these drops and say that the experts strongly agree that the main objective we have announced and its components, this combination of indicators is essential if we want to pass the point of death, ”said A. Dulkys.
“I said everything I could: tomorrow the Cabinet of Ministers will meet, the final proposals will be heard, there will be communication again, everyone will analyze and think (…). I cannot answer this question, “Dulkys told BNS when asked if he would propose to introduce a curfew to prohibit residents from leaving the house during certain hours.
It also argues that the period after which new restrictions would be introduced will depend on the measures themselves.
“It seems to me that people are tense, electrified and very bad when the instruments are canceled, they alternate every few hours or days. Then it would be good to think about them ”, said the minister.
According to A. Dulkis, several key goals will be achieved: isolate people who have come into contact with COVID-19 within two days, the number of cases per day should not exceed 200, and the number of positive tests should not exceed 5 percent without reducing its scope, and that one hundred people do not infect more than one hundred people.
“The experts have said that we have really set goals very, very precisely and clearly, and it is very important that people know what goal we want to achieve, so it is clear that when they do we can talk about relaxation or better management,” he said . Dust.
In recent days, the number of new cases has exceeded 3,000 per day, with 30 deaths recorded. The outgoing government of Saulius Skvernelis has tightened quarantine conditions since the middle of this week, but the new government, including President Gitanas Nausėda, considers the decisions insufficient.
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