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Next week, the government will decide on the application of traffic restrictions in the country, says Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė.
“On April 6, the restrictions on circulation will expire as they are now (…). At the beginning of next week we will know what the situation is and if some municipalities need to get out of that restriction, perhaps modify it. Let’s say allow people who have a vaccine or a negative test result to move, if it is technically possible to implement it in time for the police to verify it, “the head of government told reporters in the Seimas on Tuesday.
According to her, “many ideas” about movement restrictions are currently being discussed.
“Basically that restriction here is probably more holiday-centric and the fact that there’s been a lot of discussion about what those holidays should be like here, it’s only during the holidays that we really ask everyone to stay home,” said the Prime said the minister.
He explained why the “social bubbles” were removed.
“Social bubbles” between municipalities have been eliminated to reduce overall movement, says Prime Minister I. Šimonytė.
“Only the rules on transfer to another municipality have been substantially modified, that is, in the context of a general restriction of not moving to another municipality without a necessary need, because within the municipality that regulation has not been changed,” said the goverment’s head. reporters at the Seimas on Tuesday.
Basically, that restriction here is probably more focused on the holidays and the fact that there has been a lot of discussion about what those holidays should be like here, it is only during the holidays that we really ask everyone to stay put at home.
With the renewal of restrictions on movement between municipalities as of Saturday, it is no longer possible to meet with members of a “social bubble” from different municipalities.
As the SNB informed the SNB on Monday, the government’s decision last week to extend the quarantine no longer contained an exception that would allow members of two families to travel from one municipality to another if one of them has only one person.
According to the ministry, meetings between these two families or households are only allowed in circular municipalities.
In Lithuania, restrictions on movement were introduced in mid-December, and since March 16 they were lifted in most of the country, left only in municipalities with the worst epidemiological situation, and renewed again as of Saturday.
The driving ban between the country’s municipalities, with the exception of ring roads, came into force in Lithuania from midnight on Saturday. The ban was renewed by the government until April 6 inclusive to stop the spread of COVID-19.
In Lithuania, restrictions on movement were introduced in mid-December, and since March 16 they have been lifted in most of the country, leaving only those municipalities where the epidemiological situation is worst.
As with the previous restrictions, it is possible to travel from one municipality to another for business, travel to or from airports and seaports and bus stations, and for other important reasons.
Over the weekend, the policemen delivered almost 1.4 thousand. automobiles, 102 complaints of administrative infraction were made for non-compliance with the restrictions.
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