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Communication specialist Laura Matukevičiūtė, who is currently in Spain, on the island of Ibiza, where she is under extremely strict quarantine for 56 days. According to her, in 7 weeks she left the house only 6 times to the supermarket. Saturday is the first day that people can leave their homes and leave. Unfortunately, he said, this can only be done during certain hours.
“It just caught our eye then. Anyone over the age of 14 can leave from 6 am to 10 pm in the morning and 8 pm to 11 pm. In the afternoon you can only go out once a day, you have to choose, in the morning or at night. We cannot go more than a kilometer from the house so that people do not drive along the popular beaches and congregate. Later in the field from 10 am People over 70 and people with Nurses can leave for two hours in the morning They also have one hour at night from 7 to 8 pm Families with children, more precisely an adult and a maximum of three children, can be outside from 12 noon until 7 o’clock late, ”L. Matukevičiūtė told Elta about the first quarantine relief.
During the first days of strict quarantine, L. Matukevičiūtė said, people were overwhelmed with fear and uncertainty. According to her, the streets of the old town of the island were emptied and officers began patrolling them.
“You feel like in a movie. The police drive through the streets and say through loudspeakers that they cannot go outside. At the same time that the streets are empty and the police car drives slowly, from where the text spreads: “the situation is very bad, everyone is sick, stay home, this and that is prohibited”, it is horrible. If it kept raining, it looked like an apocalypse, “said L. Matukevičiūtė.
For going to the street without reason: a fine of 600 euros
According to L. Matukevičiūtė, the strict quarantine began on March 15. All merchant activities were suspended, only pharmacies and supermarkets were opened. Also, as L. Matukevičiūtė points out, people had to stay home and could only go to the nearest store or pharmacy once a week. People could only drive one at a time. Therefore, according to L. Matukevičiūtė, it was a great challenge for young families and single parents, because when they went to the store, there was nowhere to leave their young children.
“Another problem is that there are not many large grocery stores and you can go to a store that is no more than a kilometer from your place of residence. Many people have begun to resent the fact that there are only small grocery stores near their place of residence, where food prices are higher than in supermarkets, “said L. Matukevičiūtė.
According to her, people did not initially realize the seriousness of the situation, so the police began to write fines for non-compliance with the quarantine. The fine for entering the street without reason is 600 euros.
“If you want to go, you can’t, because the fines are very high,” he said.
If airports are not closed in time, the disease has spread.
L. Matukevičiūtė notes that the island closed its airports quite late, on March 23.
“From the beginning, there was dissatisfaction with the fact that airports were not closed at all. Initially, there were very few cases of the disease, but there were more than ten flights from Spanish hot spots every day, which infuriated people The authorities were very late with the flight regulations for about three weeks. As a result, these illnesses started, “said L. Matukevičiūtė.
“Initially, there was no control: I was neither checked at the airport nor measured for temperatures. Only on March 23 did he make sure that only the people of Ibiza can go to the island, ”he said.
L. Matukevičiūtė came to Ibiza from Barcelona, so she was forced to isolate herself for 14 days.
“I came to Ibiza from Barcelona. I needed to be quarantined immediately because I came to the island from a chimney in Barcelona. So for two weeks I couldn’t get anywhere. There are such rules in Ibiza that it doesn’t matter where you come from, even from the same regions of Spain, not even from abroad, you have to quarantine for two weeks. This is how I stayed 14 days without removing my legs from the house. But the police, unlike Lithuania, does not come to verify if quarantine conditions are observed. I think it could have led to an increase in the number of cases on the island, “L. Matukevičiūtė told Eltai.
ELTA recalls that at least 25,100 people have been victims of coronaviruses in Spain since its spread. The number of deaths increased by 276 per day. The country’s mortality record was recorded on April 1. – 950 patients were victims of the epidemic.
The number of infections detected in Spain per day has increased to 1,147 to 216,582. 117,248 patients have already recovered, a figure that has risen to 2,572 in 24 hours.
Spain is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic in the world. A higher level of waiting has been established since mid-March. Population movement in the country is restricted. There are no cafes, bars, schools, sports clubs, entertainment centers.
The Spanish government has announced a plan to ease the restrictive measures in stages in late June. The speed of this process in the regions of the country will depend on the situation in them.
The outbreak of a new coronavirus disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year has spread to most of the world. March 11 The World Health Organization recognized it as a pandemic. According to the latest data, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the world exceeded 3.2 million and more than 230 thousand people died.
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