In the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, Lithuania is considering re-quarantining the entire country for at least three weeks. According to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, this measure will be proposed to the government of the Baltic EU country tomorrow.
According to the BNS agency, he said that today after a meeting of the coronavirus crisis team in Vilnius. In mid-June, a first, repeatedly extended quarantine was lifted after the new infections found had declined over a longer period of time.
The new quarantine is expected to be introduced at the weekend. According to Skvernelis, catering establishments will then only be allowed to sell outside the home, many leisure facilities would have to close, and only up to ten people may gather at events. The government still has to decide on this.
Lithuania, with a population of just under three million, has so far recorded 17,453 confirmed infections and 175 deaths related to the coronavirus. According to the EU authority ECDC, the development in the Baltic Sea state is currently worse than in Germany – at the weekend the value of 1,000 new infections per day was exceeded for the first time.
