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Why Ireland today? During the first wave, Ireland, unlike Lithuania, did not impose strict restrictions and suffered very badly, so when the second wave rose, it no longer wanted to take risks and on October 21 introduced a rather strict policy. emergency shutdown, leaving an exception for grocery stores and schools.
The quarantine effect was quick and lasted until the very end. Lithuania did the opposite, during the first strict quarantine in March it protected its population, but due to people’s discontent with the government, the upcoming parliamentary elections, different opinions in the scientific community and other reasons, they did not make these decisions. The November quarantine was delayed 2-3 weeks, the restrictions were insufficient and the result is obvious, “he writes.
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Vytautas Kasiulevičius
“In Ireland on December 1 after 6 weeks emergency shutdown all shops, hair and beauty salons, gyms and leisure centers, cinemas, museums and galleries opened on December 4. Thousands of restaurants, bars and cafes were opened. Despite the excellent effect of the November quarantine in Ireland, the release of new cases of Covid-19 has already been recorded since its launch on December 16. December 17 The National Council of Public Health Advisers in 2006 recommended that the Irish government shorten the relaxation period of the relaxed COVID-19 restrictions for the Christmas holidays until the end of the year and re-apply the restrictions as of 2021.
All of these countries have had different pandemic management strategies so far, but they don’t prevent a jump in new cases.
The growth of new cases is also recorded in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany. All of these countries have had different pandemic management strategies so far, but they don’t prevent a jump in new cases. Europe’s largest economy, Germany, has been much tighter since December 16. emergency shutdownwhich has been the case so far.
TV screens and news portals have a lot of information about congested hospitals in the US or Germany, this is another third slide on the fact that Lithuanian hospitals are twice as likely to be treated with COVID patients- 19 this week than France, 3 times more than the US and 10 times more than German. The conclusion is simple: we must realize that by April-May, when the spread of the virus will slow down significantly, we will all have a long and difficult phase in which to open the economy only in strict compliance with the security requirements through testing. active preventives and risky contact prevention systems. And the public will feel the benefits of the vaccines that will soon arrive in Lithuania only in autumn ”, says prof. V. Kasiulevičius.
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