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“I think this week is a critical turning point, if we see that it has not had an impact, it is likely that certain areas need to be more strictly regulated, where there are massive human confrontations,” S. Skvernel told reporters in the Seimas on Tuesday .
“We see that there is a large crowd of people in shopping and entertainment centers, and if they do not take measures in the coming days to guarantee security requirements, flow regulation, decisions will have to be made there,” said the first Minister.
When asked if this would mean limiting working hours, the prime minister urged not to speculate.
“We need to find ways to prevent mass gatherings of people from being what they are, … we have to be careful,” Skvernelis said.
Buyer traffic dropped
The Lithuanian Association of Business Enterprises says publicly announced information about the sharp increase in customer flows in supermarkets is not accurate.
“As we have learned, healthcare professionals use the Google Mobility application to assess traffic. Even this application captures a 49 percent drop in point-of-sale traffic,” said Rūta Vainienė, director of the association.
It is added that the mobility application shows that the flow has only increased in grocery stores and pharmacies. However, members of the LPIA reported that this information was not accurate and correct. The flow of shoppers is said to have dropped and in grocery stores, it is true, not so drastically, fluctuating around minus 10 percent.
R. Vainienė affirmed that he has the data provided by Dominykas Mertinas, director of the commercial department of Akropolis, that the drop in customer traffic reaches 45%, the Panorama shopping center declares 42%. flow drop.
Rida Kalvaitienė, director of Newsec, which manages Kaunas Akropolis, Oz and Big VILNIUS, announced that the decline in the last weeks of November reached up to 55 percent.
Acting Health Minister Aurelius Veryga confirmed on Monday that the government tends to restrict the operation of supermarkets if the established requirements on human flows are not met.
According to him, this week the situation in supermarkets will be controlled so that only as many people as admitted can be admitted, that is, one person will have at least 10 m2. Area meters.
“It has been clearly said that we will monitor the situation this week, and if it does not change, the government is determined to make decisions on restrictions on supermarket chains, as has been done in Latvia,” Mrsga said.
The media reported in recent weekends that the flow of visitors to Vilnius’ large supermarkets was much higher than before the quarantine, and due to the large number of people, distances could not be assured.
According to the minister, the specific procedure for proposing the limitation of the work of supermarkets has yet to be decided. In Latvia, some weekends have been chosen to prohibit the operation of large supermarkets.
“The fact is that restrictions are accepted where there are great attractions, that is, large supermarkets, where there are many stores and where people gather to spend their free time,” Veryga said.
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