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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the following criteria are expected to be considered at the national level:
- 14-day morbidity rate (100 thousand inhabitants);
- The proportion of positive tests among tests performed within 7 days (percentage);
- volume of tests in 7 days (number of tests per 100,000 inhabitants).
Countries should be evaluated and classified in color according to the situation:
- Green: a country with a morbidity of less than 25 cases per 100,000. less than 4% of the population in the last 14 days and positive tests;
- Yellow: the country in which morbidity is less than 50 cases per 100,000. population in the last 14 days and the proportion of positive tests – 4 or more percent. or the morbidity is 25 to 150 cases per 100,000. less than 4% of the population in the last 14 days and positive tests;
- Red: a country with a morbidity of 50 or more cases per 100,000. population in the last 14 days and the proportion of positive tests – 4 and more percent. or morbidity exceeds 150 cases per 100,000. population in the last 14 days;
- Gray: a country whose data are insufficient to assess these criteria or where the volume of evidence is 300 or fewer studies per 100,000. population within 7 days.
The list of affected countries is scheduled to be published every Friday, and the list will take effect from Monday, leaving 48 hours. preparation.
Some municipalities have strengthened management measures
At the regional level, it is proposed to take into account the following criteria:
- 14-day morbidity rate (100 thousand inhabitants);
- The proportion of positive tests among tests performed within 7 days (percentage);
- the proportion of cases not related to outbreaks / outbreaks within 7 days (percentage).
According to the criteria, it is expected to distinguish the municipalities by color:
- Green: a municipality with a morbidity of less than 25 cases per 100,000. less than 4% of the population in the last 14 days and positive tests;
- Yellow: the municipality in which morbidity is less than 50 cases per 100,000. population in the last 14 days and the proportion of positive tests – 4 or more percent. or morbidity is 25 to 150 cases per 100,000. less than 4% of the population in the last 14 days and positive tests;
- Red: a municipality with a morbidity of 50 or more cases per 100,000. population in the last 14 days and the proportion of positive tests – 4 or more percent. and the proportion of cases not related to outbreaks / outbreaks is 30% or more. per week, or the incidence is more than 150 cases per 100,000. of the population in the last 14 days and the proportion of non-outbreak / outbreak-related cases is 30% or more. per week (however, at least 10 cases per week must be registered with the municipality).
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Laboratory
The list of affected municipalities is expected to be published on Fridays, starting Monday.
“The improved management measures (quarantine regime and others) are applied when municipalities of large Lithuanian cities and their districts are classified as yellow municipalities, in all other cases, when they are classified as red municipalities,” the draft of the protocol developed by SAM.
S. Skvernelis warned: without taking it, the quarantine will wait
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has previously announced that individual municipalities will receive recommendations on how to manage COVID-19.
“On Wednesday, all the municipalities will be divided into red, yellow and green groups. Each group will receive very detailed and clear recommendations on how to combat the spread of the virus, “he wrote on Facebook.
If municipal recommendations are ignored, the government, according to the prime minister, will be forced to introduce local quarantines somewhere.
In the recording, S. Skvernelis highlighted several municipalities in the country where the situation with COVID-19 is “particularly threatening.” This is the Raseiniai district, where the local quarantine is still in effect, as well as Kelmė, Šiauliai district, Šiauliai city, Joniškis, Švenčionys, Plungė, Radviliškis.
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Saulius Skvernelis
M.Sinkevičius appreciates it: there will be no improvisations
Mindaugas Sinkevičius, President of the Association of Municipalities of Lithuania, welcomed the Government’s plans to divide municipalities based on the risk of spreading the disease and to provide separate recommendations.
“The decision is logical, especially since the state has decided not to follow a policy for the whole country. In other words, regardless of the situation in Skuodas, Radvilišky or Šiauliai, unanimous decisions will not necessarily be made on quarantine and other restrictions,” he commented M.Sinkevičius on the LRT program “Hello, Lithuania”.
Such a strategy, according to him, will provide municipal administrations with more clarity, not improvisations.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Improvisations are not always successful,” said the president of the Association of Municipalities.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Mindaugas Sinkevičius
“It is not necessary, of course, for the Prime Minister or Mr. A. Veryga to say that the planned celebration should not happen, we ourselves are prudent in doing so. But when it comes to economic constraints, be it cafes or service companies They would like not to get involved in improvisations on their own, they would need the advice of the central government ”, he added.
On Wednesday, the Cabinet of Ministers plans to make other decisions related to the management of the coronavirus in the country: extend the students’ fall holidays, review the restrictions related to meetings, events and entertainment. More about this – here.
The following municipalities are now considered high-risk municipalities (based on the COVID-19 morbidity rate per 100,000 population and the proportion of positive tests detected per week among all tests performed):
- Raseiniai d. (922.3, 5.91%);
- Kelme d. (311.2; 9.11 percent);
- Siauliai d. (200.3, 12.47%);
- Siauliai c. (191.1, 4.39%);
- Joniskis d. (183.3, 13.72%);
- Svencionys d. (170.1, 9.85%);
- Dive d. (160.7, 4.91%);
- Radviliskis d. (160.0, 2.84%);
- Elektrėnai (116.7, 4.68%);
- Skuodo r. (93.3, 7.69%);
- Vilnius city (81.1; 2.44%);
- Druskininkai (78.5, 2.63%);
- Kaunas d. (77.8, 3.36%);
- Kaunas City (76.7; 1.78%);
- Silale d. (68.5, 3.32%);
- Sakiai d. (67.4, 5.32%);
- Vilnius district (62.9; 2.68%);
- Trakai d. (58.4, 3.28%);
- Klaipeda City (53.0; 1.85%).
All other municipalities are considered low risk.
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