Veryga appreciated the plan put forth by Dulkis – getting this done before the New Year is unrealistic

“I do not know how it will be achieved. I know what we did to help the National Center for Public Health trace more contacts: 100 military personnel were used, more than 400 employees of the public health office were assisted,” said A. Veryga about his measurements.

He said that he did not know how A. Dulkis could achieve the desired indicators, but, A. Veryga emphasized, it was impossible to achieve an obvious improvement in the situation before the New Year.

“It just came to our knowledge then. I don’t know what period we are talking about, it will be necessary to achieve that it will never be there (coronavirus – aut.p.). If we talk about the New Year, there are zero possibilities,” said A. Veryga.

According to him, one must now monitor whether the measures introduced by the interim government this week are working, and only then consider whether the quarantine should be further tightened.

“It just came to our notice then. Only on Wednesday did the new measures go into effect; it takes at least two weeks to see if those measures work. If they assume there will not be enough of them, it will be an assumption for the sake of it. It cannot be controlled until a certain time is reached, “added the interim minister.

Mr Veryga also added that stricter measures could be taken without the introduction of a state of emergency.

What do you want to achieve in an emergency? If you want to restrict movement between cities, you can do it without the simple situation, as was done during Easter. If you want to restrict political parties or restrict the provision of information (…) If you have read the content of the state of emergency law, you may not be allowed to speak about what the government does not like. After all, you know that media can be restricted, content can be restricted. There are n things to do. In my opinion, and as far as the lawyers have explained to me, to declare such a situation there must be a threat to the constitutional order of the country. Is that so? I don’t think so, “Veryga said.

According to the minister, he also does not understand the idea of ​​introducing a curfew.

“What is the curfew? This is usually done at night to keep people from moving. I don’t know how much they move at night. If they have some kind of information that people are walking somewhere and an action is happening at that moment and they get infected, maybe it is necessary. But I just remind you that for a long time we have banned the activities of bars and clubs, this is not the place to go at night, ”said A. Veryga.

A. Dulkys presented a concrete 3-point plan on how the new Government will handle the coronavirus in the Seimas today. According to him, it is necessary to improve the traceability of cases of people infected by coronavirus, to achieve that the number of positive results reaches 5% without reducing the scope of the tests. and reduce statistics on the transmission of the virus to people.