Lithuania plans to purchase remdesivir, an antiviral drug used for the treatment of COVID-19, the country’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
July072020
July072020
A Franciscan monk living in a Franciscan monastery in Kretinga, Western Lithuania, had tested positive for coronavirus, the National Public Health Center (NPHC) confirmed to BNS on Tuesday.
July072020
On Monday, 3 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Lithuania. Overall, there have been 1844 detected cases in the country.
July062020
Foreigners from Sweden, Luxembourg and Portugal will be banned from coming to Lithuania next week, based on the list approved by Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga.
July052020
The number of Lithuanian residents considering Belarus to be an unfriendly state is rising amid ongoing disagreements over the Astravyets nuclear power plant, a new public opinion survey has revealed on Friday.
July042020
The die-off of fish and other aquatic organisms in the River Nemunas near Grodno in Belarus was triggered by natural and climatic causes, Belarus Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection said in a response to the note earlier issued by Lithuania.
July032020
On 3 July, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania handed over a verbal note to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Vilnius in response to information that had appeared in the public domain regarding serious environmental violations on the D-6 offshore platform on the continental shelf of the Baltic Sea.
July032020
Representatives of Lithuania’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and their supporters gathered near the president’s office in Vilnius on Friday to call President Gitanas Nauseda to show solidarity and wear a rainbow badge.
July032020
Lithuania’s First Lady Diana Nausediene and Elke Budenbender, spouse of Germany’s president, discussed the countries’ experience in fighting COVID-19 and the challenges brought by the pandemic during a video call on Thursday, the president’s office said in a press release.
July032020
President Gitanas Nausėda extended congratulations to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus on Independence Day and wished the people of Belarus for a strong, independent and prosperous country.
July032020
Twelve suspects and convicts whose extradition had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic have been brought to Lithuania from the United Kingdom by a military plane Spartan, the Police Department reported on Friday.
July032020
On Thursday, 3 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Lithuania. Overall, 1828 COVID-19 cases have been detected in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic.
July022020
After three days with only 1 new coronavirus case, on Wednesday, Lithuania has detected 7 new COVID-19 cases.
July022020
Virginijus Sinkevicius, Lithuania-delegated EU Commissioner who is responsible for environment, oceans and fisheries, will on Thursday visit Klaipeda to present an initiative for reducing pollution in the Baltic Sea.
July022020
Lithuania's media watchdog, the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK), is considering following Latvia’s suit in banning TV channels of RT group controlled by Russia’s state but the decision will only be taken after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes its opinion on the application of the European Union’s (EU) sanctions, Mantas Martisius, the commission’s chairman, has said.
July012020
Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda has called on the country’s citizens living abroad to register to participate in the upcoming general elections.
July012020
Ridas Jasiulionis, a journalist and an actor, should be put in charge of the Communication Group of Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda, informed sources confirmed to BNS on Wednesday.
July012020
The third day in a row Lithuania announces about only 1 new coronavirus case in the country. Overall, 1818 cases have been confirmed in Lithuania since the outbreak of the virus.
June302020
NATO's Defender Europe 2020 exercise, scheduled for May in Eastern Europe, was set to become the Alliance's largest exercise on the continent since the Cold War, with the United States and other NATO partners planning to deploy about 37,000 soldiers. Since September last year, Debunk EU has recorded a great stir in Russian-speaking portals by disinforming the public – more than 400 publications about these exercises appeared, most of which (70%), were misleading.
June302020
The second day in a row Lithuania has recorded only 1 new case of coronavirus. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 1817 cases have been detected in the country.