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Quarantine:
* The Government Emergency Commission has proposed extending the quarantine until the beginning of March. The cabinet is expected to make a final decision on Wednesday. Next week, the government may consider easing the quarantine, promising to review the situation every two weeks later. Government officials are considering allowing two households to communicate from mid-February and from the second half of February on the return of children from primary school and permission to operate non-food stores with a separate entrance from the field.
* The opposition “peasants” have presented their plan to manage the coronavirus crisis. They propose that movement restrictions between municipalities be limited to forecasting large flows, such as the proximity of Easter, allowing trade to small stores or service providers with a separate external entrance, while requiring that staff be evaluated regularly.
Coronavirus situation:
* 541 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Lithuania, 15 people died. Currently 1,690 patients with COVID-19 are being treated in hospitals, 170 of whom are in resuscitation.
* The sixth shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer has reached Lithuania: 25 thousand. 740 doses. According to A. Dulkis, the current supply of vaccines is not sufficient to vaccinate the majority of the population in midsummer.
Photo by Scanpix / Pfizer / BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine
* Updated list of priority groups to be vaccinated against COVID-19: includes staff from other companies and institutions that provide cleaning, feeding and other services in medical institutions, drivers who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, as well as a wider circle of people who provide various social services.
* The American biotech company Moderna has announced that laboratory tests have shown that its COVID-19 vaccine protects against coronavirus strains identified in the UK and South Africa.
* In Austria, the requirement that all persons over 14 years of age wear FFP2 respirators in public transport, shops, pharmacies and hospitals has come into force.
* US President Joe Biden is preparing to lift the travel ban for most non-US citizens who have been to the UK, Brazil, Ireland and most of Europe. These steps will be taken to warn experts that new, more contagious coronavirus strains are already spreading in the United States.
* Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he was diagnosed with COVID-19, says he was experiencing mild symptoms.
Heavy snowfall. On Monday evening, heavy snowfalls will hit the southern regions of Lithuania, and will continue until at least Tuesday evening. Due to strong winds, expect a blizzard and a nightmare will form at night. Meteorologists warn that snowfall can reach dangerous levels.
Rapporteur status. Olga Vėbrienė, Director of the Department of Environmental Protection, announced that she had been granted rapporteur status. He appealed to the Attorney General’s Office about the conduct of Environment Minister Simon Gentville, but did not reveal the content of the report. A public dispute between the minister and O. Vėbrienė arose when he dismissed an environmentalist who had informed S. Gentvilas about the oil spill at the Būtingė terminal late last year during the holidays.
Arno Strumila / 15min photo / Simon Gentvilas
Alexei Navaln’s situation:
* European Union Foreign Ministers met to discuss the response to the arrest of Russian opposition Alexei Navaln and the arrest of protesters. The Baltic states and Poland are calling for sanctions against officials responsible for the violence and arrests. They also tried unsuccessfully to persuade the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to refuse a trip to Moscow, telling ministers that a visit to Russia would take place.
* Navalno’s comrades called for new demonstrations against the Kremlin this Sunday.
Scanpix / ITAR-TASS photo / Alexei Navaln arrested
* Russian leader Vladimir Putin called a Navaln study of a luxurious palace indirectly owned by the president on the Black Sea coast “brainwashing”. “He put everything together and decided to brainwash our citizens with all this material,” the Russian leader said in a remote meeting with students.
* The Russian Foreign Ministry has protested to the US embassy over reports on social media promoting demonstrations and accused US tech giants of interfering in Russia’s internal affairs.
Estonian politics. The chairman of the Estonian Reform Party, Kaja Kallas, and the leader of the Center Party, Yuri Rat, signed a coalition agreement. K. Kallas, 43, will be the first woman to serve as Estonian Prime Minister.
Talks. Greece and Turkey succumbed to pressure from the European Union and NATO and launched the first direct talks in nearly five years on a crisis in their relations that is fueling tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. No breakthrough is expected at the Istanbul meeting, but it offers hope for an opportunity to improve relations between Turkey and the European Union.
Space satellites. On Sunday, the US private space company SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket, which carried a record number of satellites: 143, including a device developed by the Lithuanian company NanoAvionics. They were successfully bred.
AFP / Scanpix Photo / SpaceX Mission Transporter-1 Launch
Court in Sweden. In Sweden, a lawsuit has been filed against two filmmakers who violated the inviolability of the sunken ferry Estonia. While filming the documentary, the team sent a remote-controlled submarine to the ferry, which detected a huge hole in the hull. This finding raised doubts about the findings of the official disaster investigation.
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