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Edita, who lives in London, and her heart friend Jonas planned to cross the Eurotunnel by car on Monday and race to Lithuania. When a thrombus was found in the lungs, John’s father’s condition greatly deteriorated. However, after France closed its borders, they were unable to leave the UK. However, yesterday Jonas and Edita received even worse news: the old man in Lithuania died.
How can people feel terrible in such a terrible hour? There are sleepless nights, called to Lithuania overnight and everywhere, because there his mother and sister are only in two. They are all very terrible. It’s a terrible test, ”says Edita, a Lithuanian living in London.
The couple had already applied to the embassy for a place on a humanitarian trip, providing documents proving the death of a loved one. However, no response has yet been received.
“It just came to our attention then. And as if a person likes to walk. That’s the feeling. Of course, I would go if I could go through the tunnel,” says Edita.
However, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have already agreed that the only humanitarian trip of the trapped people from London to Riga will take place on Monday, December 28. Priority will be given to those requiring a flight due to health concerns. However, this is not the only possible criterion.
“Of course the priority is children, mothers with children, pregnant women. Needless to say, it is a humanitarian turn, ”says Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė.
“The criterion of humanity is the main thing. Let’s look at these cases in a humane way, because the number of places is small and the people who have the opportunity to wait for those days, we will ask them to wait patiently, ”said Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.
There are 48 seats on the plane for the citizens of each country. If one state does not fill its seats, they will be redistributed to others. The flight will be paid for, but its price has not yet been announced. People trapped will need to have a negative coronavirus test or be in isolation for 10 days upon return.
“We will help organize transportation from Riga airport to Lithuania. Colleagues promised that transportation would be quiet, escorted and everything else, just so that those people are not delayed and those people go home as soon as possible,” says G Landsbergis.
Lithuania’s ambassador to the UK says that people who have lost loved ones can hope to return to Lithuania, but not with their families, only with the closest person. According to the ambassador, more than 300 Lithuanian nationals trapped in the UK have already submitted official applications to come to Lithuania.
“Those who do not live here, who have temporarily entered the UK, have traveled or come to study. There are young people, even minors, who come to consult future universities and find themselves in such a situation,” says Ambassador Renatas Norkus.
At the time, Rock Asta, trapped in Wakefield, England, was displaying a bus full of stacked gifts for relatives of emigrants, which she and her husband were to take to Lithuania before the holidays.
People are waiting for presents, and Asta herself and some at home.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Everything here is in the form of laughter. The children are not waiting, but now the situation is such that now we have to burden innocent people with their own problems, because we have to embrace them,” says the Lithuanian. Asta, you can’t leave.
However, after a two-day lockdown, France is slowly opening up. From this morning, you can reach France by ferry, plane, train. It is true that, at the moment, only French citizens, British residents in France and tugboat drivers can travel. All of them must submit a negative coronavirus test within three days prior to departure. Rokiškis Asta says that she and her husband will try to leave in five days, and they paid 166 euros for the test, which they will both do tomorrow.
“I wonder now when that test will go into effect. Is it from when you get a negative answer or when you take the exam? Because if I only go up on 27 and my tunnel on 28, the question is, will I be able to get out again? ”Asta said.
Currently, a queue of about 5,000 tugs has formed in the Port of Dover. Their drivers lack patience. The confrontations also begin.
However, drivers are likely to need even more patience. British authorities say that no matter how hard they try to test everyone as soon as possible, the queues will only start to stretch in a few days. By the way, the Netherlands and Belgium also lifted the ban on entry from the UK today.
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