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This week, the Government Emergency Commission proposed to the Government to extend the quarantine until February 28.
“If we compare the figures with December, when our austerity measures began, it is a huge change, but it has come in huge numbers. With the introduction of quarantine conditions, the incidence has decreased, but the number of reported cases remains high. The number of municipalities with even a small number of cases is recorded.
This does not mean that our measure does not work. By observing the situation in the hospitals, we managed to control it very strongly, ”said Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys at the government meeting on Wednesday.
The 14-day morbidity of Covid-19 in Lithuania in December exceeded 1,000 cases out of 100,000. population and has now been cut in half. Statistics Department January 27 According to the data, the morbidity rate in Lithuania reaches 498.2. According to statistics from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Lithuania remains in the red zone, among the countries most affected by the coronavirus.
The cabinet did not consider easing the quarantine on Wednesday. However, next week there should be a clear plan on how Lithuania will gradually come out of quarantine. According to the draft, the first mitigation can be expected in mid-February, depending on the epidemiological situation in the country.
Education, health and business have been identified as priority areas for release from quarantine.
In Lithuania, the quarantine was announced on November 7 of last year and, as of December 16, its regime was tightened and extended until January 31.
The population will remain restricted
Together at the meeting until February 28. 24 hours the control of population movement between municipalities has also been expanded.
It is true that the exceptions provided so far will continue to apply to people traveling between municipalities.
Since last week, people have been able to interact more freely with each other, creating so-called ‘social bubbles’. This means that two families or two households can communicate if one of them has no more than one adult (along with minor children) or a person who needs constant care and attention.
Members of the social bubble can move from one municipality to another if they are in different municipalities.
The movement of people between municipalities is restricted by the police. It is true that there are several exceptions, even when traveling to or from airports, sea ports, bus stations serving international passenger routes, to the municipality of your residence due to the death of close relatives.
Nor is it prohibited to travel to work when the workplace is in another municipality, for health services, for other objectively justified reasons of urgency, when it is unavoidable to go to a municipality other than the one where you live.
The restriction also does not apply to people who travel to a municipality other than the one in which they reside, where they have real estate.
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