V. Kasiulevičius plan to stop coronavirus: 3-6 weeks of quarantine, tests and hospital care provided

On Saturday, V. Kasulevičius writes on his Facebook account that Belgium has announced the introduction of a 6-week quarantine until December 13.

“Based on the experience of Ireland and Israel, I recommend such an action plan to the Government this fall.” The 30-day ‘ABCDE’ plan is free to the Government of Saulius Skvernelis, “says the professor.

First, V. Kasiulevičius, based on the example of Ireland and Israel, proposes to introduce a 3-6 week quarantine in Lithuania.

Certain restrictions must apply during quarantine. According to the doctor, at weddings and funerals, groups of up to 10 people with close relatives.

No more than 10 people should attend religious services. Communion – only in the hands.

In catering establishments, food is prepared just to go.

According to V. Kasiulevičius, food stores could operate in normal mode during quarantine.

The list of other essentials stores must be approved by a separate government resolution.

“Sports clubs. Only individual training in the field with one person and a coach. Urban transport. No more than 10 people on the bus, ensuring a distance of at least 2 meters between passengers,” said the VU professor.

According to V. Kasiulevičius, kindergartens and primary classes should function during the quarantine.

Safe ways for older students to learn should be discussed in government with teachers.

Contact lessons are limited to at least 50 percent.

Higher education institutions, he said, should move to distance education.

V. Kasiulevičius proposes that the provision of health care services be ensured through universal quarantine, while preserving the planned volume of services in the public and private sectors as much as possible. The volume of scheduled services could be reduced based on the need for COVID-19 inpatient services.

Also, as the professor writes on Facebook, controls at the country’s borders and airports should be more stringent.

You need to prepare for vaccination.

The second part of the plan proposed by V.Kasiulevičius to stop the spread of the coronavirus is related to the tests.

“For high-risk and focal contact tests for COVID-19, high-quality rapid antigen tests with a sensitivity of more than 90 percent and a specificity of at least 99 percent will be performed, in addition to testing for PCR already implemented. These tests should be available to primary care physicians and patients. Introduce ELISA COVID-19 antibody tests as early as possible to assess the development of immunity in relapsed individuals. These tests must also be widely available to family doctors and the public, ”emphasizes the doctor.

These tests should be available to primary care physicians and patients.

Speaking of vaccines, V. Kasiulevičius points out that our country must create the conditions for safe vaccines to enter Lithuania as soon as possible, which will successfully complete the third phase of clinical trials by the first day of December and the results will be published preliminary investigation.

“It is necessary to create conditions for the vaccination of doctors, police, firefighters, teachers and other professional groups that provide the most important services to society, as well as patients from the highest risk groups (chronic diseases) from December. Doctors must be vaccinated first, so that in January, after the end of the quarantine and the recovery of the virus, they can safely provide help to the sick, ”emphasizes the professor.

For the elderly: pulse oximeters

According to V.Kasiulevičius, everyone over the age of 65 must have a pulse oximeter and family doctors must maintain remote but constant contact with these people.

The VU professor also distinguishes hospitalized patients.

“People with government mandate should have the right to control the flow of patients in hospital settings across the country so that severe COVID-19 patients receive timely hospital care,” the doctor wrote on his Facebook account.