From August 17, up to 1,000 people can gather indoors at the same time, instead of the current 500, as well as restrictions on catering providers and cultural, sports and religious activities have been reduced, amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers regulations “Epidemiological safety measures to limit the spread of Covid-19 infection”.
No changes are planned for outdoor gatherings – as at present, the maximum number of people allowed is up to 3000.
Restrictions on catering providers are being reduced by allowing eight visitors to sit at one table indoors instead of the previous four and by waiving the limit on the number of people at tables outdoors.
Catering companies will be allowed to work until 2, ie two hours longer than the current regulation allows. This condition would apply to places where the main service is catering and where people sit at tables.
The required space per person in restaurants, shopping centers and cultural venues is also reduced from four square meters to three square meters. In turn, the requirement for caterers to ensure a distance of two meters between the tables is maintained.
Similar relaxation of restrictions is applied to cultural, sports and religious activities, which will also be able to work until 2 pm, and also in them one person will have to provide only three square meters.
Entertainment places (discos, nightclubs) will continue to be able to work no longer than 24 o’clock.
Business service providers and event organizers, who may gather more than 500 people during the event or during the provision of the business service, both indoors and outdoors, should develop an action plan to limit the spread of Covid-19, including human flow planning and other activities.
In theater performances, concerts and film screenings, spectators are in their seats, so these events are associated with a significantly lower risk of Covid-19 spread. Recognizing also that it is possible to segregate human flows in such events, an exception is made for such cultural events, allowing more than 50% of the potential capacity of the facility to participate in the event, provided that groups of 300 people are segregated, which do not encounter each other at any stage of the event.
This means that these people must have a separate entrance, exit, toilets and a place between breaks. The rules already stipulate that if spectators are to have their seats in their seats at the cultural event, a distance of one meter between the seats must be provided instead of two meters.
Information on the person in the fixed personal seating shall be kept for 30 days for the purposes of the epidemiological inquiry.
Participants in amateur choirs and ensembles have to observe a physical distance of two meters, because unlike speaking, singing creates aerosols, which result in the transmission of infection much further.
These conditions do not apply to professional teams, as they are considered to be a work team whose members are together on a daily basis, while amateur teams meet separately once a week in addition to their daily routines, thus running the risk of encountering their colleagues and other teams. thereby increasing the risk of spreading the infection.
It also stipulates that the new list of countries from which you must return must comply with the 14-day self-isolation.
Given that there may be situations where a person who has already contracted Covid-19 and cannot infect other people crosses the Latvian border, it is determined that these people may not observe self-isolation when coming from a country that is published on the SPKC website as a country. which are subject to special precautionary or safety measures. In such cases, the person should have a doctor’s report on the disease Covid-19, which the person can present to the family doctor. If necessary, your doctor may prescribe a Covid-19 antibody test for these people to check that the disease is progressing.
Given that in some situations, individuals who test positive for Covid-19 require health care in a medical facility, such as an antibody test to verify that a person is indeed infectious, the possibility has been introduced that a person with a confirmed Covid-19, you can leave your place of residence to see a doctor on a doctor’s appointment.
In this case, the person goes to the medical institution, taking the precautionary measure to the maximum – using the medical face fee, not using public transport and observing other precautionary measures in accordance with the doctor’s instructions.
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