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Coronavirus situation:
* A new daily record of 776 cases was reached in Lithuania, three COVID-19 patients died. In hospitals, 348 people are treated for COVID-19, 36 of them in resuscitation.
* The government has limited the number of spectators at sporting and cultural events: it can accommodate up to 300 spectators indoors and up to 400 spectators outdoors if a distance of two meters is maintained between them. Other massive events will be banned.
* In the capital, COVID-19 patients will be admitted to the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital in Antakalnis from Friday. This decision was made because the beds for coronavirus patients in the Santara clinics were almost full.
* More than 100 cases of coronavirus have been detected in the Lithuanian Armed Forces, more than 600 soldiers and employees are in self-isolation. According to representatives of the army, patients are in various units, these foci are not large.
* The situation is deteriorating rapidly in other European countries as well. Records have been set again in neighboring Poland: 18.8 thousand have been set there in the last day. cases, 236 people died. Germany and France are preparing to announce strict restrictions in the near future; the situation is expected to normalize by the Christmas period now that social life has been restricted. More than 500,000 people have registered around the world in the last day. a record number of new cases of coronavirus infection per day.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Gitanas Nausėda
President’s message. In the run-up to talks with right-wing leaders about a new government, President Gitanas Nausėda detailed his vision of the welfare state in a press conference, ranging from reducing social exclusion to increasing funding for the defending. The head of state said he intends to assess how many ministerial candidates appear to be in line with his vision, but will not conduct petty exams. The president also asked the election winners to come up with an immediate plan for managing the coronavirus pandemic.
Civil security. The government agreed to reform emergency management by concentrating all civil protection issues in the Fire and Rescue Department. The final decision on emergency management must be made by Seimas, the modifications would come into effect in December 2021.
Russian note. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak sent a note to Lithuania asking for a review of the new methodology for electricity trading with Russia in the three Baltic states. This methodology restricts the entry of Russian electricity into the common market. The aim is to guarantee a boycott of the Astrava nuclear power plant.
Prevention of money laundering. The Cabinet of Ministers approved the creation of the Center of Competence for the Prevention of Money Laundering. The center is expected to help combat money laundering and terrorist financing risks more effectively. The establishment of the center was fueled by money laundering scandals in the Nordic and Baltic region in recent years.
Transmission stop. The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission has started procedures to suspend the broadcast of the RTR Planeta television program on grounds of war, strife and national hatred. Illegal information has been detected a second time in this program. If three such violations are detected during the year, the commission may temporarily suspend the broadcast of the television program in Lithuania.
Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has announced that 19 civilians have been killed in an Armenian missile attack in the Berde district, near the Nagorno-Karabakh front line, but Yerevan has denied carrying out the attack. This would be the costliest attack since fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces resumed on September 27. Since then, more than 100 civilians on both sides have died.
Cartoon. Turkey has vowed to take legal and diplomatic action over a cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Meanwhile, Mauritanian jihadist Fawaz Ould Ahmed has told the court that the club was attacked in Bamako in 2015 in revenge for the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published by Charlie Hebdo. The attack then killed five people: a Frenchman, a Belgian and three Malaysians as they fired at a bar and restaurant in Mali’s capital, Mali. The jihadist said he does not regret the attack.
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