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Spread of the virus. Twelve new cases of coronavirus were reported over the weekend. Ten of them were registered in Vilnius County, one in Utena and Telšiai counties. Three cases involve travel abroad: the infection was brought from Russia, Sweden and Denmark. Four infections are related to the staff of the Santara clinics, three with the festival that took place in the village of Kalveliai, Vilnius district.
List of approved countries. Residents of Sweden, Portugal and the United Kingdom will continue to be banned from entering Lithuania next week due to the high incidence of coronavirus in these countries. Foreigners from Belgium must spend two weeks in solitary confinement. Lithuanian citizens can return from all countries, but 14 days of isolation are mandatory for those arriving from the countries mentioned above.
Border control. With the abolition of border controls, the flow of cars to and from Poland has increased considerably since Saturday afternoon. According to border guards, there are up to ten times more cars going in both directions than at border controls.
Foreign:
* No new COVID-19 infections were detected in Latvia and Estonia in the last day.
* In Russia, 8.8 thousand were confirmed during the last day. In new cases of coronavirus infection, 119 patients died. A total of 528 thousand people were registered in this country. 964 cases of infection, 6948 people died, 280 thousand. 50 patients were discharged from hospitals.
* The number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine continues to increase: 648 new infections were confirmed in the last day and nine patients died. A total of 31 thousand. 154 cases of COVID-19 infection, 14 thousand. 82 people recovered, 889 died.
* China reported 57 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the highest number of infections per day since April. The “military state” has been introduced in eleven districts of Beijing. New cases of coronavirus are associated with the food market.
* Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands have signed an agreement with the pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca to ensure that the European Union produces 300 million. dose of potential vaccine against the new coronavirus. It promises to supply all members of the community. Vaccine development is scheduled to be completed later this year.
Important news not related to coronavir:
* Sunday is the day of mourning and hope. In a ceremony honoring deportees and political prisoners in Vilnius at the Freedom Fighters Monument, President Gitan Nauseda drew attention to calls in the Russian Duma to overturn the 1989 decision to condemn the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact . According to him, the deeper the historical consciousness of the neighbors is immersed in forgeries, forgetting and coma, the more important the capacity of the Lithuanian population to remember becomes.
* The Freedom Party, which held a remote congress on Saturday, approved a list of candidates for the Seimas, some single-member members and an electoral program. For the first time, the political force participating in the Seimas elections will be led by its spokesperson, Seimas member Aušrinė Armonait second, second on the list, human rights activist Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, third, expert on drug and addiction policies , Morgana Danielė.
* The Seimas is considering establishing a new award: Alexander Stulginski’s star, for former politicians for the development of democracy. This idea was proposed by Seimas spokesman Viktoras Pranckietis. According to him, the award “would help highlight the benefits and freedoms that our democratic form of state governance and the possible threats that it brings to our society.”
* The Ukrainian police reported that they blocked an attempt to give 6 million. A $ 5.3 million bribe to end the criminal case against the head of a natural gas company whose board served the son of former United States Vice President Joe Biden a few years ago. Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor Nazar Cholodnicki said that neither Biden nor his son were involved in the attempted bribery.
* In the United States, in Atlanta, a police officer fatally shot a black man at the time of his arrest, and the city police chief resigned. According to an official report of the incident, Rayshard Brooks, 27, fell asleep in his car in the parking lot of “Wendy’s” restaurant on Friday night, restaurant staff called police to annoy other visitors. Authorities found Brooks drunk and tried to arrest him, but he resisted. The new murder has further fueled furious protests against racism and police brutality.
* The UK held a more modest than usual official Queen Elizabeth II birthday ceremony on Saturday, canceling a traditional parade in honor of the coronavirus pandemic flag.
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