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The tightening of the quarantine regime will take effect on Wednesday.
“We have a question and your task is to complete the process that we started yesterday. We wanted to make decisions quickly, but we could not do without procedural problems,” Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said at the meeting.
According to her, a revised draft, clarifications related to the issues of movement of people and provision of contact services were also discussed on Monday. “We agreed on the decisions by consensus. We really understand that there is a very unpleasant situation,” said the Prime Minister at the end of the meeting.
“We decided that it would be appropriate to keep the newsroom for two people who may be on the street, but add for a family and a home,” he said. According to the updated draft, it is possible “to be in public places in groups of no more than two people or in groups of a family and / or a household.”
The proposed amendments also provide for travel to other municipalities for scheduled medical services.
“We received practical questions that came up <..> This needs to be clarified, not only the necessary assistance has been registered but also the planned health care, who has an appointment at a medical institution in another municipality, has also registered ”, explained I. Šimonytė.
Šimonytė: the police will control the roads on weekends and holidays
When the government restricts the movement of residents between municipalities, the police will install checkpoints on the roads on weekends and holidays, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė announced on Monday.
“There will be more physical control on holidays and weekends, and on ordinary days, especially during the working week, those tools that the police really know how to use in public and in private will be used,” he said during a government meeting.
He said that he had discussed the matter with General Police Commissioner Renat Požėla.
Starting Wednesday, residents will be able to leave their township only for work, funerals or medical care.
In Monday’s presentation at the government meeting, the legal requirement that resolutions covering quarantine regulation must be presented by the Minister of Health will be implemented. Article 1 of paragraph 3 of article 21 of the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Act of the Republic of Lithuania will be announced by the Government on the proposal of the Minister of Health.
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