If Lithuania needs to go into lockdown in order to stop the spread of Covid-19, it will probably last three weeks and include travel restrictions within the country and moving all education online, according to the health minister.
“All teaching and education would switch back into the remote mode, there would be movement restrictions, probably even on travel between cities,” Arūnas Dulkys told LRT TV on Monday. “Let’s hope we won’t need that. We still need more information on how the new virus variant behaves.”
The situation in hospitals remains stable, the health minister added, although the rising numbers of hospitalisations in other countries and the spread of the Omicron variant “is a cause for some concern”.
“We are closely watching this, but we have returned after the holidays and the health system is stable,” Dulkys said.
The government has earlier said it will impose tighter restrictions only if the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care hits 240.
At the moment, the number of people hospitalised due to Covid-19 is 1,161, including 110 patients in intensive care.
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