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Coronavirus situation:
* In Lithuania there were 61 new cases of infection per day. Many of these cases are related to the outbreaks at Radviliškis and Raseiniai hospitals and the Vilnius progymnasium. Four coronavirus cases per day were detected in Latvia, 36 cases in Estonia, 757 cases in Poland, and 17 deaths.
* The virus is spreading rapidly in the Czech Republic. 10 million In a country with a population of more than 3,000. new cases. Doctors warn that hospitals may run out of room for patients. The government shortened the work of bars and discos until midnight, introducing the mandatory use of masks for students from the age of 11. In the European Union, the virus is only spreading faster in Spain than in the Czech Republic, and a shortage of hospital beds has already been reported in Madrid.
* In Israel on Friday at 2 pm The quarantine came into effect in the Lithuanian era. Residents are not allowed to go out more than 500 meters from their homes, except for necessary trips to the store and work, schools, bars and some stores are closed and gatherings of more than ten people are prohibited in the inside.
Situation in Belarus:
* Following the announcement of the closure of the borders with Lithuania and Poland by the President of Belarus, Aliaksandr Lukashenko, on Thursday evening, the movement at the border proceeded as usual on Friday. Lithuanian leaders called the speeches about the border closure provocative, but warned that Lithuania would also close the border to Belarusian cargo in response to such actions, greatly damaging its fragile economy.
* Sviatlana Cichanouskaya, leader of the Belarusian opposition in Lithuania, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council by video call. She said she was willing to “dialogue with the authorities and find a peaceful solution to the crisis” and called for “an end to violence against the peaceful population,” the release of political prisoners and the admission of a United Nations special rapporteur. Belarus, Russia, China and Venezuela have asked not to show Cichanouskaya’s video statement, but have not blocked it.
* The Minsk prosecutor’s office has announced that, together with the militia, it is seeking parents to attend protests with children, and this could later become the basis for decisions about unfavorable conditions in the family.
Judicial verdict. The Vilnius Regional Court sentenced a young man who had tried to commit a terrorist attack in the capital to two years and four months in prison. Gediminas Beržinskas, born in 1999 and interested in neo-Nazi views, left a homemade explosive on the wall of the Western Union building last October, but it did not explode. The guy admitted his guilt.
The crisis in Poland. Poland’s ruling right-wing coalition is on the brink of collapse over animal rights law. “Now any possibility is possible: both a minority government and early elections,” said government spokesman Piotr Muller. The controversy arose when smaller partners in the coalition refused to vote in favor of the animal rights law, introduced by Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
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