“Tonight, my team and I visited several cafes and bars in Vilnius that operate with a passport of opportunities.”
Until recently, with 634 cases per day, “normal life” was unimaginable. And today we can enjoy the coming autumn and get back to many of our usual activities without any restrictions. The city is full of Vilnius residents and city guests who have returned from vacation. Life does not stop!
Our common goal is to achieve a situation where we do not need a passport of opportunity, ”the minister writes in her facebook account.
On Friday night, the Minister was pleased that some businesses are making a big difference at this rather difficult time.
“In addition to the number of these diseases that we have now, Lithuania has already severely limited economic activities this year: catering services, tourism services, entertainment and so on. Our goal is not to limit those activities. We are seeing the number of infections rise again, but our goal is to keep vaccines and opportunities to keep passports open for businesses to operate. I am very glad that there are such businesses that help us in this difficult hour, ”said A. Armonaitė on Friday evening.
The minister also assured that there are quite a small number of cases where people try to cheat and falsify documents, but, according to the minister, this is how they deceive only themselves.
“We see a very small proportion of cases of counterfeiting. I just want to say one very simple thing – if you pay money for a forged document, you are not deceiving the government, not the state institutions, the business, but yourself. You pay money so you don’t have protection. The vaccine is completely free, freely available and yet the person has protection. “I urge people to act rationally and not to use forged documents, because it is a crime and self-deception,” the politician assured.
Delfi reminds that it will be possible to collect the Opportunity Passport at pharmacies, Lithuanian Post, Sodra terminals, and branches of the Center of Registers. It is not yet clear whether this will be possible at Perlo terminals. According to the Minister, representatives of the company are currently being discussed.
On Friday Government at the meeting agreed that the Minister of Health, the head of state-level emergency state operations Arūnas Dulkys entrust the Center of Registers with the provision of a passport printing service, while “providing for the possibility of using other entities to provide this service”.
A. Dulkys promised to sign the decisions of the operations manager on Friday, establishing the procedure so that state and municipal institutions, establishments, companies, pharmacies, ie “all those who would conclude contracts with the Center of Registers” could issue passports.
The minister says he has received assurances from the Pharmacy Association alone that the opportunity passport could be issued by at least 800 pharmacies across the country.
According to the Minister, out of a million opportunity passports issued by the Center of Registers, an average of 4.5 thousand were printed this week. Opportunity passports are issued all over Lithuania, and about 50 thousand virtual passports are issued every day, but among them there are people who take out an opportunity passport repeatedly.
Evening in Vilnius
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According to A. Armonaitė, the government made legal decisions on Friday, and technical solutions have already been found in the Center of Registers.
17,000 people were vaccinated against coronavirus last day. 733 people: 7901 of them received the first, 9832 – the second dose of the vaccine, the Department of Statistics reported on Friday.
In the country, at least one dose of COVID-19 has been vaccinated against 1 million people. 639 thousand 78 people fully vaccinated – 1 million. 478 thousand 273.
Slightly more than a quarter of adolescents 12 to 15 years of age are currently vaccinated with at least one dose.
Six out of ten people aged 16-24 and 25-34 have been vaccinated, as well as the oldest population aged over 80.
In the age groups between 45 and 79, the recommended 70 percent is achieved. vaccination rate, and in the 65-74 age group this share is 77.8 percent.
The population of 35-44 year olds is also approaching the recommended proportion of vaccinated people, where 69.3% were vaccinated. people.
In Lithuania, 58.6% have received at least one vaccination against coronavirus. people, 69.1% of adults were vaccinated. population.
Last day, 634 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, six people died from this infectious disease, the Department of Statistics announced on Friday.
Two people over the age of 60 and 80 and one person over the age of 70 and 90 died, respectively. Only one of them was fully vaccinated.
The number of new diseases in 14 days is 100 thousand. population rose to 283.5 cases, the proportion of 7-day positive diagnostic tests rose to 4.8 percent.
In the country, 7070 molecular (PCR) and 7422 antigen tests were performed on the suspected coronavirus last day.
In Lithuania, a total of 296 thousand COVID-19 patients have become ill since the beginning of the pandemic. 738 people, of whom 6994 are still ill: this figure has risen daily.
A total of 4520 people died from COVID-19, of whom 24 were fully vaccinated. 9201 deaths are directly and indirectly linked to COVID-19.
In total, Lithuania has received almost 4.183 million. vaccine doses, of which almost 2.948 million were used. doses.
About 1.23 million are currently unused. vaccine doses.
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