Lithuania has seen it’s number of new daily Covid-19 infections exceed 10 000, but Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has called for the government to lift all epidemiological restrictions reasoning that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is less dangerous to vaccinated people, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reports.
«It’s time to start living with a virus that is, luckily, not that dangerous anymore», the liberal Freedom Party’s Mayor of Vilnius urged in a long Facebook post on Thursday, January 27.
Although Lithuania is reporting record-hitting numbers of new daily infections, restrictions on businesses and public life do not make sense anymore, according to Šimašius.
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«The virus is all around, but people are not dying massively, are not going to hospitals. It means that the Omicron variant is weaker, luckily», he argued. «The virus poses almost no danger to those who have been vaccinated. The unvaccinated should not be our priority, since they made their choice», Šimašius wrote.
The article originally appeared on LRT English: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1599621/vilnius-mayor-calls-to-end-pandemic-restrictions
Vilnius Mayor calls for lifting all restrictions, as «the virus is all around»
