Nauseda: healthmin has to step down if he can't contain pandemic

Lithuanian Health Minister Arunas Dulkys must come up with solutions how to manage the coronavirus pandemic or he has to step down, President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday.

"There are two paths for the minister: either he says he knows how to achieve a breakthrough, [...] or, if he does not see how to do it, he admits it honestly and does not take the government hostage," Nauseda told journalists in the northwestern town of Mazeikiai.

"I think this is, first of all, the prime minister's decision. If the prime minister does not take this decision today, Mr. Dulkys, if he admits that he is struggling to cope, can help the prime minister; the path is very simple", he added.