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Virus status:
* Fifty-one new coronavirus cases were confirmed per day: 19 were associated with outbreaks, another 16 were infected from known cases, three cases were imported, and the circumstances of seven infections are unknown. Six cases were identified in Vilnius Gabija Progymnasium. With a total of 13 of the 66 employees of the Raseiniai Police Station infected, the institution works remotely. The country’s hospitals are currently treating 37 people with coronavirus, five of whom are in resuscitation and intensive care units. Three new cases of coronavirus were detected in Latvia, 22 in Estonia, 377 in Poland, 2,462 in Ukraine and more than 5.5 thousand in Russia.
* Cases of coronavirus are registered in 30 Lithuanian educational institutions, in total the infection was detected in 43 people, 561 were isolated.
* From now on, the consent of the population in contact with patients with coronavirus by self-isolation will no longer be required, specialists will inform by telephone about the mandatory measures, announced the Minister of Health Aurelijus Veryga.
* Control of arrivals to Lithuania by sea and airports is being completed, but arrivals from affected countries will continue to be required to provide data to specialists by filling in an electronic questionnaire in advance.
* Isolation time can now be shortened: People who have spent eight days in self-isolation have the opportunity to perform a molecular test (PCR) for coronavirus at a mobile point, and if not, shorten the isolation period to 10 days instead of 14.
* The World Health Organization predicts an increase in the number of COVID-19 deaths per day in Europe in October and November.
* The Israeli government has approved the resumption of strict quarantine measures for three weeks starting next Friday. Israelis will not be able to stay more than 500 meters from their homes, with restaurants, hotels, gyms and swimming pools temporarily closed in the country.
* Millions of Italian children returned to schools on Monday, opened more than half a year later to control the coronavirus pandemic.
Situation in Belarus:
* Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who received Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko in Sochi, promised to contribute 1.5 billion. Loan in USD. Putin also said that it is based on the idea of carrying out a constitutional reform in Belarus. Opposition leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaya in Lithuania expressed her regret at the meeting. “I want to remind Vladimir Putin: whatever he accepts, whatever he agrees during the meeting in Sochi, will not be legally valid. All agreements signed with the illegitimate Lukashenko will be reviewed by the new authorities,” he said.
* The Belarusian militia arrested a total of 774 people on Sunday during unauthorized protests for violating the rules for organizing mass events, more than 500 of them in Minsk.
* It turned out that the head of the Belarusian Catholic Church, Metropolitan Archbishop Tadevus Kandrusevich, was not allowed to enter the country from Poland because the authorities decided to declare his Belarusian citizen’s passport invalid.
* The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed to hold an urgent debate on the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus on Friday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for an investigation into allegations of torture as Belarusian security forces suppressed protests in the country.
* Currently, Lithuania has granted 205 permits to Belarusian citizens to enter for special humanitarian purposes, of which 54 Belarusian citizens are already in Lithuania.
* The president of the European Affairs Committee of the Seimas, the “social worker” Gediminas Kirkilas, and the leader of the opposition, the conservative Gabrielius Landsbergis, propose to the government to extend the sanctions to the Belarusian regime and to prohibit the entry to Lithuania to more than 80 Belarusian government officials.
* The Belarusian embassy and the park near the Russian embassy in Lithuania on Sunday lit the colors of the flag that became a symbol of the opposition. The initiative’s author, Eglė Grėbliauskaitė, said she wanted to express her support for Belarusians fighting for freedom ahead of the meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus.
Economic situation. The Finance Ministry forecasts that Lithuania’s gross domestic product should fall by around 1.5 percent this year and 3.3 percent next. increase. “The latest figures show that the situation is not really dramatic and they give that moderate optimism,” said Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka. According to him, Lithuania’s budget will be in deficit next year, but “within the limits of common sense”.
Banking benefits. Banks and branches of foreign banks operating in Lithuania earned LTL 127.9 million in the first half of this year. Net profit in euros: 28.6 percent. less than in January-June of last year, when its profit amounted to 179 million. euros.
A. The poisoning of Navaln. Laboratories in France and Sweden have confirmed German findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navaln has been poisoned by Novicchi group’s anti-nervous palsy, the German government said. Following these results, French President Emmanuel Macron asked Putin to immediately explain the attempted assassination of Navalna and determine who was responsible. At that time, a German hospital reported that Mr. Navaln’s condition was improving and that he was now able to get out of bed.
Acquisition of TikTok. TikTok, a video platform focused on a diplomatic dispute between Washington and Beijing, has turned down the offer from US tech giant Microsoft to take over its US division. This means that with the Chinese company nearing the end of the deadline to sell or close its branch in the United States, Oracle remained the sole bidder.
Prime Minister of Japan. The Japanese ruling party has chosen Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga as its new leader, making it almost certain that he will replace Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister.
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