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Coronavirus situation:
* Five new deaths per day from COVID-19 have been confirmed, the highest number of deaths since mid-April. 81 new cases of infection were confirmed.
* Currently, 156 patients with COVID-19 are being treated in hospitals, 11 of them in resuscitation and intensive care units. According to health professionals, although the number of people seen in hospitals is similar in the spring, there are two to three times fewer severe forms of the disease that require resuscitation or intensive care.
* The Raseiniai district municipality with the Ministry of Health decided to request the Government to announce the local quarantine.
* In Latvia, 68 new cases of coronavirus were detected per day, in Estonia – 42, in Poland – more than 2.2 thousand, in Ukraine – more than 4.3 thousand, in Russia – more than 11.5 thousand.
* United States President Donald Trump, who was treated for COVID-19 in hospital for four days, went to the White House. He promised to resume election campaign events quickly.
Situation in Belarus:
* Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaya met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
* Lithuania and Poland called their ambassadors from Belarus for consultations. According to diplomatic sources, such a decision was due to pressure from Minsk and the threat that the ambassadors would be declared undesirable. Belarus withdrew its ambassadors from Vilnius and Warsaw for consultations last week and called on Lithuania and Poland to do the same and reduce the number of diplomats working in Minsk. Lithuania itself does not intend to reduce the diplomatic staff, and if the Belarusians decide to send some diplomats, they promise to respond at the same time and send Belarusian diplomats from Lithuania.
* The program funded by the European Union received a great response in the media, according to which, with the participation of Lithuania, support was provided to the Belarusian law enforcement agencies for the purchase of 15 drones. Lithuanian police say they transferred the money received by the European Commission under the project to the Belarusian State Forensic Committee in May this year, three months before the rigged presidential elections.
Seimas Elections:
* In the Seimas elections, on the first day of early voting on Monday, 12 thousand people voted. 980 voters. This is 0.54 percent. of all voters.
* Ingrida Šimonytė, leader of the conservative list, Gitautas Paluckas, leader of the Social Democrats, Remigijus Žemaitaitis, leader of the Freedom and Justice party, Valdemaras Tomaševskas, president of the Lithuanian Union of Christian Families, president of the Lithuanian Union of Christian Families, Lithuania , I. Šimonytė raised the idea that a minority government could act after the elections, G. Paluckas emphasized that the goal of the socialists is to form a center-left coalition.
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min photo / Ingrida Šimonytė
Business support. One billion started official activities. The Business Support Fund, created to help large companies affected by the coronavirus crisis and having difficulties obtaining loans in the market, has a value of one billion euros. According to the fund managers, the companies will be financed with the purchase of the bonds they issue, but in exceptional cases, the state can also become a shareholder in these companies.
Monument. To commemorate the second anniversary of the funeral of the partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanags, a monument dedicated to him was unveiled at the Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius. President Gitanas Nausėda, who participated in the ceremony, called the life of the partisan commander a lesson that freedom-loving Lithuanians are stronger than brutal violence.
Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia, the United States and France have declared that the escalating conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is an unacceptable threat to the region. Turkey has called on the world to support Azerbaijan and has questioned the benefits of a ceasefire in this separatist region inhabited by Armenians. “The fighting can escalate and seriously involve any of the foreign countries. More importantly, this war marks the end of Western influence in the region,” British analyst Edward Lucas wrote in a commentary to the SNB on the conflict.
Espionage. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Smolensk and Pskov arrested a brother of the Russian Armed Forces and his brother, who was permanently residing on Estonian territory, on suspicion of transmitting sensitive data to Estonian special services, and presented a state extradition case.
Estonian study. The Estonian government has decided to ask Finland and Sweden to carry out an additional tripartite investigation into the 1994 ferry tragedy in Estonia. The movement was caused by a hole in the body discovered by the filmmakers. Until now, the main version has been that the ship sank due to poor construction of the door locks in the transport compartment and bad weather conditions. The Estonian disaster claimed 852 lives.
Kyrgyz elections. The Kyrgyz Central Election Commission has officially annulled the results of Sunday’s controversial parliamentary elections. Several opposition parties refused to recognize the election results due to the alleged vote buying, and the protesters took to the streets to demand a new vote. The losing parties have announced their intention to form a popular government and elect a new prime minister, calling for a withdrawal. President Sooronbay Zejbekbek, for his part, said that some political forces in Kyrgyzstan were trying to take power illegally and urged the leaders of the protests to abide by the law and the people of the country not to succumb to provocations.
Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists who explore black holes. It was to English Roger Penrose, a representative of mathematical physics, Reinhard Genzel, a German astrophysicist, and Andrea Ghez, an American astronomer.
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