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Quarantine. The government has decided to introduce universal quarantine for three weeks starting on Saturday. Catering and entertainment activities other than takeout will be prohibited. Sports competitions must take place without spectators, other events and meetings are prohibited. Stores can continue to operate. Masks may be required in public places for groups of up to five people, excluding family members. Catholic services will be held by limiting the number of believers.
123RF and Scanpix / AP Photo / US Presidential Election: Donald Trump and Joe Biden
Elections in the United States. Preliminary results suggest that the winner of the US presidential election will be determined by a very small margin. To be declared the winner, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of 270 out of 538 votes in the Electoral College College. Trump also said there was “large-scale fraud” in the vote count. The results could be determined by votes from six states where the winner is not yet known with certainty. According to 16 Hours Lithuanian Time, Biden has a slight advantage in Michigan, Nevada and Wicksonsin, while Trump has an advantage in Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The vote count was slowed by the high turnout in the early coronavirus pandemic.
Photo by K.Pleitos / LMIC / Compositor Faustas Latėnas
Lost. The composer Faustas Latėnas died at the age of 65. Friends remember the winner of the National Prize for Culture and Art as a sober and dedicated playmaker with the director’s ambitions.
Coronavirus situation:
* 639 new cases of COVID-19 infection were confirmed in Lithuania, seven infected people died. In hospitals, 676 people are treated for COVID-19, 57 of them in resuscitation.
* Records of coronavirus cases and deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in neighboring Poland and Latvia. In Poland, 24.7 thousand people were infected per day. 373 people died, 313 and six in Latvia, respectively.
* To stop the spread of the virus, throughout Italy from Thursday at 10 pm the night curfew is introduced.
VPN guide. President Gitanas Nausėda has appointed Darius Vedrickas, the current head of the Central Procurement Authority, to act as director of the Public Procurement Office. He will be appointed for a four-year term from December 1.
Seimas sitting. The initiative of the rulers to hold an extraordinary session of the Seimas at the request of the Union of Christian Families of Polish Electoral Action of Lithuania to request the Constitutional Court to challenge the results of the Seimas elections failed. The president of Seimas announced that very few signatures had been collected to convene the session.
Decision of the Court. The Constitutional Court has ruled that the financing procedure for Lithuanian national radio and television does not conflict with the Constitution. According to him, the automatic calculation of the LRT budget on the basis of the revenue collected from personal income taxes and excise duties ensures that the national public service broadcaster does not face political pressure due to its activities. The Constitutional Court has recognized that the Constitution conflicts with some other laws that establish specific pre-financing of various funds and programs, establishing their amount as a certain percentage of excise duties and taxes.
„Scanpix“ / ITAR-TASS nuotr./Aliaksandras Lukašenka
Sanctions for Lukashenko. The European Union has decided to impose sanctions on the unrecognized President of Belarus, Aliaksandr Lukashenko, and 14 others for electoral fraud and violence against their citizens.
Paris Agreement. The United States formally withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement and became the first country to do so. In the event of an election victory, Biden could reverse that decision. If Trump wins the election, individual US states, cities and companies can take the lead in protecting the climate.
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