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The mass car inspection will begin again at 1 pm and will continue through Sunday night.
The control of vehicles at the posts is in charge of the police, border guards, the Riflemen’s Union, the Military Police, the Public Security Service and the Financial Crimes Investigation Service.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė, Commissioner General Renatas Požėla and Vilnius County Police Chief Saulius Gagas promise to provide more detailed information on police work on New Year’s Eve and over the long weekend at a short press conference Thursday at noon.
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government unnecessarily banned movement between municipalities until January 3. Police ordered mass inspections of cars underway on weekends and holidays.
Since mid-December, when a traffic ban between municipalities was introduced, officials at checkpoints have handed over 31,000. transport. Almost 16.5 thousand. The cars rolled over during the long Christmas weekend.
The police are urging residents who are traveling to provide documents proving their right to move.
People can travel for work, to the doctor or to the funeral. The car can be driven by a maximum of two people or people who live together.
Limits the population’s access to fir
To welcome the New Year on Thursday, Lithuanian cities promise to limit residents’ access to the city’s fir trees, some will turn off their festive lighting, and New Year’s fireworks will be abandoned.
Municipalities promise to limit gatherings of people to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Neighboring Latvia introduces a curfew for New Year’s Eve, but the Lithuanian government has not considered that possibility.
All the luminous decorations in the Theater and Atgimimo squares will go out in Klaipėda on Thursday night. Alytus announced that the New Year’s lights in the center of town will be turned off at noon on Thursday.
Vilnius and Kaunas municipalities will not extinguish fir trees, but say they will restrict people’s access to them in central squares. The two largest cities in the country, like others, are ditching fireworks in one place.
In Šiauliai, the main fir will be illuminated, but it promises to strengthen patrols: the municipality does not rule out that when people gather, the lighting can be turned off.
In Panev thežys Freedom Square, the spruce will also be physically fenced and will not be accessible to people.
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