The Government extends the precautionary measures to limit the spread of Covid-19

In accordance with the epidemiological situation and in order to reduce risks to the further spread of Covid-19 among the Latvian population, the government has adopted new precautions to ensure social distancing and control thereof.
It is stipulated that only food shops, pharmacies, including veterinary pharmacies, opticians' shops, animal feed shops, hygiene and farm shop shops, as well as construction and horticultural goods shops will be active on holidays and holidays.
The provision of certain health care services will be restricted in order to protect Latvian residents from suspected illness with Covid-19. Services that are life-saving and which provide continuity of treatment will be preserved.
The medical practitioners will no longer be able to provide healthcare services in a number of medical institutions. The purpose of such action is to minimise the risks that an infected medical practitioner enters another medical treatment institution within the framework of the provision of employment duties, endangering patients and other medical practitioners. Experience from other countries shows that medical practitioners are in the Covid-19 high-risk group because of direct contact with patients, while the infected medical practitioner may be infected by both colleagues and hospital patients who may be treated in severe form in Covid-19.
The activities of sports clubs and the learning process of sports professional orientation and interest education programmes - training, competitions and attempts, as well as sports events in closed spaces have been interrupted.
On the other hand, providers of tattooing, piercing and beauty care providers will have to keep information about the name, surname and telephone number of the customer in order to ensure epidemiological surveillance. The Ministry of Health, in co-operation with representatives of the relevant field, will approve measures to ensure the social distance of these service providers.
The Ministry of Transport will develop restrictive measures by the end of the working week in order to reduce the number of persons in public transport, while ensuring both social distance and the opportunity for citizens to get to work.
In order for the State Police to be able to control more effectively violations related to mandatory self-isolation, the State Border Guard will then transfer information regarding the certificates completed by the repatriates to the State Police.
In future, companies will have to ensure the supply of food, medicinal products and first-needed goods as well as the supply of raw materials necessary for the production of those goods for the purposes of the domestic market.
It is determined that the Council of the National Electronic Mass Media, taking the relevant decision, will be able to transfer the news and informative analytical broadcasts of Latvian public media to other electronic media, as well as to decide on the termination of their use if the electronic mass media does not comply with the decision of the National Electronic Mass Media Council.
25 March amendments to Cabinet Order No. 103 of 12 March 2020 “on the announcement of emergency situation” are available in full at: http://www.mk.gov.lv/lv/aktualitates/par-arkartejas-situacijas-izsludinasanu (consolidated version).
In order to protect patients and medical practitioners from potential infection with COVID19, healthcare services in both public and private hospitals will be partially restricted until the end of the emergency.