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Spread of the virus. Six new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania per day, three each in Klaipeda and Vilnius counties. In Klaipėda county, one case is related to a nursing hospital, the second with the Lithuanian army and the third with a local one, when a person is infected by a relative. In the capital, two cases are related to the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital in Antakalnis, the circumstances of the third person’s infection are still unclear. Vilnius City Clinical Hospital has become the main focus of coronavirus among Lithuanian health care institutions. Statistics have been published that women in Lithuania are more likely to suffer and die from coronavirus than men, and six of the 54 deaths were under the age of 60. So far, the infection has been diagnosed in 1,511 people, including 26 children under the age of 14.
Tax negotiations. President Gitanas Nausėda, who visited the Seimas, announced that he hoped to reach an agreement with the ruling coalition in the coming days on the reduction of labor taxes and the expansion of the circle of beneficiaries of unique benefits of 200 euros.
Cafeteria instructions. Requirements have been established for restaurants, cafes and bars to resume indoor activities starting next Monday. Some café owners urge Health Minister Aurelia Veryga to remove the requirement to allocate 10 square meters of space per person. Other requirements: no more than five people can sit at a table, the distance between people at different tables must be at least two meters, with partitions of at least one meter.
Lesson update After the government allowed municipalities to resume their studies in late May, education and health ministers said they would make more detailed recommendations in the near future, based on guidelines from the World Health Organization.
Discussions about the work of doctors. Discussions arose between doctors and politicians over Veryga’s order that multi-job doctors could only go to another medical institution after completing a one-month work cycle in the first place. The minister says it is only a recommendation aimed at preventing the spread of the virus in institutions, critics say it will make it more difficult to provide treatment, especially in the regions.
Unemployment growth. Sodra reported that the number of recipients of unemployment benefits increased by a quarter in April compared to April last year. They will be paid more than 26 million in May. In the same month last year, payments totaled 15 million euros. euros
Flights to Riga and Tallinn. Latvian airline Air Baltic has announced that it will resume flights from Vilnius to Riga on May 18 and to Tallinn on May 25.
Foreign:
* The European Medicines Agency has announced in an optimistic scenario that it expects that the vaccine against coronavirus infection COVID-19 will be approved within a year. But the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus will never go away, and that the world will have to learn to live with it as it learned to live with HIV.
* Seven new cases were detected per day in Estonia, eleven in Latvia and 947 in Belarus.
* In Russia, for the first time since May 2, less than 10,000. New cases of coronavirus infection.
* Finnish students have returned to classes after eight weeks of quarantine, although the teachers union warned that it may be unsafe for school staff and children.
Important news not related to coronavir:
* Deputy Environment Minister Rasa Vaitkevičiūtė, who has been criticized for changes in the Hunting Rules, has voluntarily resigned and will no longer work from next week.
* LRT reported that there are suspicions that the construction company of the Minister of Transport and Communications Jaroslav Narkevičius was rebuilt more than a decade ago by the construction company in exchange for the help of a politician to win tenders for the repair of kindergartens and schools . Denying the Minister, the STT confirmed that it is conducting a pre-trial investigation to find out the circumstances.
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