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Spread of the virus. On Thursday, three new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Lithuania, two of which were imported: people who returned from Germany and Nigeria. An employee of the human warehouse in the capital was also infected and her condition was serious. Sixty-one people who contacted her at work were identified.
Child benefits. On Thursday, Seimas decided to stop paying sick benefits to sick children who were cared for by their parents at home during the quarantine. For elementary students, benefits will no longer be paid beginning June 8, and for students with disabilities in kindergarten, preschool, and special school, from the day the amendment takes effect the day after the President signs it.
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Opening of walls. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that with the increasing liberalization of travel restrictions within the European Union, the opening of external borders can only be expected in late June. Meanwhile, another country, Malta, has announced that it will open the airport from July 1 and plans to resume air services with almost 20 countries, including Lithuania.
Support for older workers. Seimas members approved amendments that further support employees over the age of 60 during an emergency or quarantine. They will receive a tenth higher subsidy than others, and benefits will continue after a quarantine emergency.
Reactivation of the real estate market. The Records Center notes that although the number of real estate transactions in May, although lagging behind the long-term average, it increased by a fifth compared to April this year. However, the representatives of the Registration Center still cannot say if this means a stabilization of this market or if the change is related to the technical aspects of the transaction registry.
Foreign:
- Another person infected with coronavirus died in Latvia, three new cases were identified, and ten new cases were detected in Estonia.
- The Israeli parliament ordered workers on Thursday to stay home and canceled the scheduled meetings when the legislature was diagnosed with a coronavirus infection.
- Ukrainian police are investigating a possible quarantine violation by President Volodymyr Zelensky during a working visit to Khmelnytsky on Wednesday, when he and members of the delegation had coffee at a café. In Ukraine, the total number of infected people exceeded 25 thousand.
- In the United States, another 919 people died from COVID-19 last day, and the total number of deaths exceeded 107,000.
- Armenian Prime Minister Nicolas Pasinyan reported that the country’s hospitals are no longer coping with the influx of patients with the COVID-19 coronavirus infection. There are 11,221 cases of coronavirus officially registered in Armenia, including the Pashinian itself.
Important news not related to coronavirus
- The Chief Commission on Official Ethics terminated the investigation into the circumstances of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelio Street’s funding, and found that there was no evidence that S. Skvernelis confused his interests. The Prime Minister was pleased that a point has been made in history, but regretted that his reputation and the peace of his family have suffered as a result of this history. President Gitanas Nausėda called for the commission’s decision to be respected, but also added that people who wait years to pave its streets will not be convinced.
- President Gitanas Nausėda presented for public consultation a new version of the Corruption Prevention Law, which would evaluate the institutions according to their resistance to corruption, and these data would be made public, and the heads of the institutions and institutions would have More responsibility.
- The president of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis nominated Andrius Kabišaitis, head of the Legal Department of the Seimas Chancellery, as judges of the Constitutional Court, but the leader of the “peasants” Ramūnas Karbauskis declared that this candidacy would not have the support of the rulers.
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