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Vaccination against COVID-19:
* At least a fifth of the Lithuanian population has already received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
* The Kaunas vaccination center will not work for three days, because it has already vaccinated all the vaccines received. According to the representatives of the municipality, a similar situation may occur next week. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says that with the acceleration of vaccination, the vaccine stock in many municipalities has been depleted and the Ministry of Health does not have the opportunity to present more.
* I. Šimonytė visited the municipalities where vaccination is slower. She said she was pleased with the efforts of these municipalities and offered government support and more information on the benefits of vaccination in the languages of national minorities. “The municipalities are also working, I think they feel the attention, they feel the same pressure from society,” said the Prime Minister.
* Large companies in the country are beginning to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, but most are still waiting for vaccines. Companies say the process has only sped up in the food industry.
* A Pfizer manager says that people will likely need their company’s third dose of COVID-19 6 to 12 months after the second dose.
* Finland has announced its intention to negotiate directly with Russia on the supply of the Sputnik V vaccine. It is not yet known when vaccines developed in Russia could enter the country.
Coronavirus situation. 1,088 new cases of COVID-19 were identified, seven people died. 1,087 patients are treated in hospitals, 109 of them in resuscitation. Lithuania has almost entered the “black” epidemiological scenario: the number of new cases is 100 thousand. the population reaches 493 in 14 days.
Worship in churches. The bishops announced that as of this Sunday services will be held again in the churches of all municipalities in the presence of the faithful. In recent weeks, masses have been sacrificed without believers in the municipalities with the worst epidemiological situation. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says she is grateful to the Church for its help in managing the pandemic and urges that efforts be made to ensure that it does not deteriorate after release.
Recovery plan. President Gitan Nauseda criticized the government for 2.2 billion dollars. The European Economic Recovery Plan, which said that the debate was taking place “behind closed doors” and that “there was enough feedback from the European institutions on what had already been said.” The government rejects the allegations: according to the Prime Minister, the European Commission has no complaints against Lithuania regarding the reforms, and according to Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė, it is the European Commission that has asked not to publish the plan yet. The European Commission, for its part, asked the government to be as open as possible to the social partners.
Unemployed benefits. Sodra announced that the number of unemployment benefit recipients and the amount of benefits are no longer growing and have been stable for several months. According to the director of the institution, people often do not need the maximum time to pay unemployment benefits; they find a job in an average of five months.
Filming in the USA At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a FedEx shipment in Indianapolis, US, and at least four more were taken to hospital, one of them in critical condition. The attacker, whose identity has not yet been identified, committed suicide after the shooting.
Punishments in Hong Kong. Jimmy Lai, a 73-year-old Hong Kong media mogul, was sent behind bars for a year for one of the largest democratic protests in 2019 in the city’s history. Four more defendants were sentenced to probation. Among them are Martin Lee, an 82-year-old lawyer named Hong Kong’s father of democracy, and Margaret Ng, a 73-year-old lawyer.
China growth. China’s gross domestic product grew at a record 18.3 percent in the first quarter of 2021. compared to the same period a year ago. The growth was driven by higher domestic and external demand and tough measures taken by the government to control the spread of COVID-19.
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