The quarantine is more lenient for everyone: the government maintains movement restrictions in 16 municipalities of the country

Of great concern

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė told the meeting that a project for the return of primary school children would soon appear.

“This time saving is important because some of the activities are being updated today, and later this week (…) we will discuss the conditions under which beginners can return to contact education. Several processes are taking place here at the same time, “said the Prime Minister.

The project is expected to be presented later this week at the next government meeting on Wednesday.

Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys, who presented the change to quarantine to the Cabinet of Ministers, said that the Health Ministers of other countries also discussed possible risks.

“In recent days we have had several conversations with the ministers of neighboring countries, that aspect of the British strain of the virus is very important, it is very worrying,” said the minister.

Movement restrictions

SAM proposes to the Government to restrict the movement of people from 00:00 hours on March 16 to 24:00 hours on March 31 Biržai District, Klaipėda Town, Kupiškis District, Marijampolė District, Neringa, Panevėžys Town, Panevėžys District, Šalčininkai District, Širvintos District, Švenčionys District, Trakai District, Utena District, Varėna District, Vilnius city, Vilnius district , – people are prohibited from entering or leaving these municipalities.

All municipalities in the country, where 100 thousand. population in more than 200 cases in 14 days, movement restrictions will be maintained.

As before, these exceptions would apply.

People are prohibited from entering and leaving these municipalities except in the case of:

• to the municipality of your place of residence;
• to a municipality other than that of your place of residence due to the death of close relatives;
• work (in labor matters) when the workplace is in another municipality;
• to or from international passenger routes to or from airports, seaports, bus stations; about health services;
• when people living in the adjacent municipalities of the Klaip Klada city and district, Panevėžys city and district, Vilnius city and district move between the indicated adjacent municipalities;
• for other objectively justified reasons of urgency, when travel to a municipality other than the one in which you reside is unavoidable.

This restriction also does not apply to members of the same family or a household who travel to a municipality other than the one in which they reside, where they own real estate owned by one of the family or household members.

The document presented by SAM also suggests that the doors could be opened by zoos and botanical gardens indoors.

Delphi recalls that the quarantine lasted throughout Lithuania until March 31.

Data analyst: We see a small increase

Government data analyst Aistis Šimaitis presented the latest data on the pandemic to the Cabinet of Ministers.

“We are in a similar place to where we were 3-4 weeks ago, when it seemed that the rise was beginning, but it did not turn into a big bang. But the indicators show that we are in a low stage, ”said A. Šimaitis, an analyst at the government meeting.

He said the acceleration of the pandemic is again positive, albeit small. He said that there is no sustainable position, there is a rebound in different regions of the country.

“We seem to be wavering a bit,” said the data analyst.

He said there was no indication that the situation would get worse soon, but there was no indication that it would improve.

A. Šimaitis stated that the Lithuanian strain of coronavirus dominates in Lithuania, but the number of cases of the British strain is starting to increase.

“You can say that there are many more British varieties in Vilnius than in February, it may even be dominant,” said the data analyst.

He stated that regional clusters can be seen throughout Lithuania.

“We are in such an unstable situation, there is an increase in cases. But it is good that there has not yet been a large-scale explosion of cases, as in other countries due to the quarantine measures applied, “said A. Šimaitis at the Cabinet meeting on Monday.