Media: Presidential staff could contact Sakalauskas, LNOBT leader with Covid-19



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On Friday evening, the lrt.lt portal announced that the presidential staff could communicate with the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, Jonas Sakalauskas. The portal reported this based on its sources.

The news portal tv3.lt already announced this Friday that the head of LNOBT Jonas Sakalauskas had been infected with the coronavirus, for which the theater was suspended.

We also report that President Gitanas Nausėda and his team were isolated due to contact with a person with coronavirus.

J. Sakalauskas himself confirmed the diagnosed virus.

“Yes, it is true, I received positive data this morning that the coronavirus is present. The procedures are currently in progress, contact persons with whom I have been in contact have been identified ”, said the head of LNOBT.

He says he felt the first symptoms of the disease on Wednesday and went to a private clinic Thursday to get tested for coronavirus. The theater director says he does not know where he may have contracted the coronavirus because he has not recently gone abroad, he did not communicate with people who would be diagnosed with the coronavirus.

J. Sakalauskas says that he avoided communication with the theater groups, and this week he had closer contact with various theater employees, mainly management.

“At the moment, there are solutions to disinfect the theater, stop work, investigate possible contacts and, after receiving answers, return to work for those who do not have those risks,” said J. Sakalauskas.

Over the weekend, he claimed to have participated in two open air events in Klaipeda: the Blue Dinner and the premiere of the Flying Dutchman opera in the port city. The mayor of Klaipda, Vytautas Grubliauskas, other public figures from Klaip otherda and representatives from the world of music also participated in the events.

“I felt bad on Wednesday, there didn’t seem to be any illness on Thursday, but I went to do prophylactic tests, little thing. Today it has gotten worse again (…), at this moment it seems that I don’t have the temperature, it goes up, down, the symptoms are very rare, ”he said.

J. Sakalauskas claims that he isolated himself at home, along with his children.

He claims that theater facilities will be disinfected and employees who have been in close contact with him will be tested.

“If the tests are positive, there will be a separate language. If it is negative, after a while it will work again. “Only me and my immediate environment will have to quarantine ourselves for a longer period of time,” said the LNOBT director.

An employee of the presidency contacted a patient with COVID-19, G. Nausėda and others – isolated

An employee of the presidency had contact with a sick coronavirus, so all colleagues were instructed to isolate themselves, including President Gitanas Nausėda, and Ridas Jasiulionis, the chief adviser to the head of state, confirmed to BNS on Friday.

“We don’t know if that person was infected at the time the contact was made. We know that his test is now positive, but we do not know if he was infected at that time, ”R. Jasiulionis told BNS.

According to him, all employees are currently in isolation, including the head of state. A contact worker will be tested for coronavirus.

“He will do it tomorrow morning, we wait for the result on Sunday so that we know before Monday,” Ieva Elenbergienė, communication adviser to the president, told BNS.



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