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Simulikas announced the confirmed coronavirus infection on Facebook on Saturday.
The parliamentarian participated in the Seimas session on Tuesday and in the Seimas Human Rights Committee session on Wednesday. During the meeting, the parliamentarian used a medical mask, but in an irregular way: the mask did not cover the nose.
NVSC specialists begin an epidemiological investigation into the case Sunday morning.
It is recommended that people who have had contact with V. Simulik isolate themselves now, without waiting for a call from specialists.
Last night I found out that your test is positive, I’m not going anywhere anymore.
A friend from the bench was isolated
Deputy R. Šarknickas was immediately isolated after reading reports about his colleague’s diagnosis in the media on Saturday night.
They are sitting next to them in Seimas’s living room.
“Inevitably we have to communicate in the meeting, we sit half a month apart”, 15 minutes said R. Šarknickas, together with V.Simulikas, in the faction of the ruling “peasants”.
“It just came to our attention then. Maybe it will save us that we were wearing masks,” he added.
“Last night I found out that his test is positive, I am not going anywhere,” said a member of Seimas.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Robertas Šarknickas
The parliamentarian said that the situation generated additional concern because he had donated blood on Friday, and since he did not know the diagnosis of V. Simulik, he indicated in the questionnaire that he had no contact with the COVID-19 patient.
Parliamentarian Petras Čimbaras is sitting next to V. Simulikas at the Seimas.
R. Šarknickas said that he did not remember if they had communicated with each other, but it is not possible not to speak in the Seimas so close.
“Bench’s friends always get into each other,” said R. Šarknickas.
P. Čimbaras 15 minutes declined to comment on the situation.
Photo by Vidmantas Balkūnas / 15 min photo / Peter Čimbaras
Neither R. Šarknickas nor Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the “peasants”, said that they did not remember whether V. Simulikas had participated in the faction meeting at the Seimas this week.
However, R. Karbauskis 15 minutes He assured that in group meetings the distance between colleagues is maintained, everyone wears masks.
“The faction meeting is taking place in a large hall,” said the president of the Lithuanian Green and Peasant Union.
Valdo Kopūstas / Photo by 15min / Ramūnas Karbauskis
Four more employees closed
When V. Simulikas chaired the session of the Seimas Human Rights Committee on Wednesday, there were no other MPs alive, all were remotely connected.
However, four members of the committee table helped organize the meeting, all of them already in isolation.
“We are all isolated and waiting for calls from the NVSC.” 15 minutes said the head of the office Jolanta Savickienė.
He claimed that a coronavirus test would be done even without specialist guidance because he had a person with pneumonia in his family.
The memory of the person who had the contact can be found here.
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