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Coronavirus situation:
* 100 new cases of coronavirus detected per day. Currently 156 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals. The most difficult situation of all the chimneys remains the social residence of Blinstrubiškės in the Raseiniai district.
* 10 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Estonia, 40 in Latvia, 401 in Belarus, 2,000 in Poland, almost 3.8,000 in Ukraine, almost 11,000 in Russia.
* 12 people were fined for not wearing protective masks last week, 49 for self-isolation violations.
* Following the detection of the coronavirus by two employees of the French Embassy in Vilnius, who were part of the delegation of French President Emmanuel Macron, the diplomatic mission was closed for a couple of days.
* The coronavirus infection has affected approximately one-tenth of the country’s schools, with 91 students and 31 teachers with COVID-10. The Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Algirdas Monkevičius, says that all these cases are related to the outbreaks of the disease, most of the students and teachers were infected outside the school environment.
* The Minister of Health, Aurelijus Veryga, announced that the government will be offered to apply mandatory self-isolation only to people who come from countries where morbidity is 10 and more percent higher than in Lithuania and abandon the 25 cases per 100,000 existing . population indicator. The government should also decide on tighter restrictions in the Raseiniai and Radviliškis district municipalities. Decisions can be made on Wednesday. Meanwhile, specialists from the National Center for Public Health warn that the slowness of the population in these two municipalities to detect coronavirus could make it difficult to control the infection.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Aurelijus Veryga
* Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, was isolated after contact with COVID-19. She tested negative last week.
* Paris bars and cafes are closed for two weeks due to the spread of the coronavirus.
* The number of COVID-19 victims has exceeded one million worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic. The United States, Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom claimed the most lives.
* US President Donald Trump, who is being treated for COVID-19 at the hospital, has said that he has learned a lot about the disease. He had unexpectedly left the hospital with his courtship of his followers gathered outside for a short time, and his behavior received a negative reaction from the medical community. US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said he is ready to postpone the Oct. 15 debate with Trump if necessary.
Elections of the Seimas. Preliminary voting in the Seimas elections has begun, which will last four days this year due to the pandemic. Voters in self-isolation are slow to register to participate in the Seimas elections: more than 28,000. only 230 people in isolation registered to vote at home.
Photo by Erik Ovcharenko / 15 min photo / Preliminary vote in the Seimas elections
Minimum salary. In the absence of consensus among the tripartite council on raising the monthly minimum wage, the Ministry of Social Security and Labor proposes to the Government to increase it by 35 euros to 642 euros (before taxes) starting next year.
Changes 15min. The journalists of the news portal 15min.lt, in response to the anticipated changes in the editorial structure, established a union. Journalists Dovydas Pancerovas and Birutė Davidonytė left the portal to protest the behavior of the company’s manager. Ramūnas Šaučikovas, CEO of 15min, says he hopes the union will help establish a dialogue and implement the necessary changes.
Lithuanian Post. The Minister of Transport and Communications, Jaroslav Narkevičius, announced that Lietuvos Paštas would probably not become a specialized bank, as experts had determined that such a scenario was not economically profitable. However, there are plans to expand the financial services provided by the post office, such as cash withdrawals and deposits, transfers, and daily payments.
Situation in Belarus. Aliaksandr Lukashenko, the unrecognized president of Belarus in the West, threatened to “participate” in the cargo flows from Lithuania and Latvia, claiming that these Baltic neighbors would suffer significant losses as a result. This is not the first such threat from A. Lukashenko.
Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / Protest in Belarus
Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continue in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with both sides firing on some large cities. Armenian President Armen Sargsyan warned that the country could recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and begin providing direct assistance to it.
Nobel Prize. This year’s Nobel Prize for Medical Achievement went to Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, as well as Britain’s Michael Houghton. They are usually honored by the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
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