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Coronavirus situation:
* In the last two days, 2,199 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, 21 people died from this infectious disease, 17 of them were not vaccinated. In two days, 199 people were hospitalized for COVID-19. Currently, 951 people are being treated in hospitals, 99 of them in resuscitation. The number of new diseases in the country in 14 days is 100,000. population increased to 476.2 cases, the proportion of seven-day positive diagnostic tests adhered to about 6 percent.
* The Registry Center reported that nine out of ten who could do so had withdrawn their passport of opportunity. It has been issued for around 1.5 million. populations infected or vaccinated by coronavirus.
* Worldwide, more than 228 million have been eliminated between the start of the pandemic and Sunday morning. cases of pandemic coronavirus infection, reported Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.
Migration crisis:
* At the border with Belarus, some 20 migrants were handed over in the last two days and two foreigners were admitted to Lithuania on humanitarian grounds on Saturday.
* In the Švenčionys district, on the Belarusian side, a shot was fired on Friday evening, and three flares were fired in the neighboring country in the morning and two more at dusk. Two shots were also fired at the border on the Belarusian side on Friday night in the Varena district.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Victoria Čmilytė-Nielsen
Party elections. At the congress held in Trakai, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen was re-elected president of the Liberal Movement for a second two-year term. Seimas member Andrius Bagdonas competed with the head of parliament for the position. After counting the votes, V. Čmilytė-Nielsen was supported by 670 and A. Bagdon – by 184 voters. The MP Edita Rudelienė became the first MP for V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.
Meeting. Roughly 50 people, instead of the 700 scheduled on Saturday, gathered for a new “Tribune of the Nation” rally organized by pedagogue Astra Astrauskaitė against power restrictions for residents without passports.
Elections in Russia:
* Russian citizens in Lithuania will vote in the parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Photo by Scanpix / ITAR-TASS / Elections in Russia
* Tech giants Google and Apple have blocked lists of Russian candidates recommended to vote for Kremlin critic Alexei Navaln. According to sources, such measures were taken under pressure from the Russian authorities, including threats to arrest local workers of tech giants.
* A.Navaln’s “Smart Voting” bot has disappeared from the “Telegram” correspondence platform.
Repression. The Belarusian Ministry of Justice has filed a lawsuit requesting the liquidation of the public association “Tell the truth”.
Scanpix / AP Photo / Four SpaceX tourists land in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida
Space. After spending three days in space, four SpaceX tourists landed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida on Saturday night, successfully completing the first mission in orbit without professional astronauts. The capsule landed on time, shortly after 7 pm local time (Sunday at 2 am Lithuanian time).
Taliban. New Taliban leaders in Afghanistan ordered on Saturday that only boys and male teachers return to secondary schools, and the situation of girls and female teachers is not mentioned in their order. A harsh Islamist group toppled the US-backed government last month, but promised a more lenient government than in the 1990s, when women were generally prohibited from studying and working.
Drone attack. The senior general admitted on Friday that Washington made a “mistake” by conducting a drone strike on suspected Islamic State (IS) jihadist militants in Kabul in the final days of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, but killed 10 civilians, including several children.
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