Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte apologized on Wednesday evening for the government's raising of lockdown easing expectations before a decision was made.
February042021
February042021
On Wednesday, 721 new COVID-19 cases were detected in Lithuania. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has already recorded 184 948 coronavirus cases.
February032021
The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday not to ease the lockdown restrictions for now, reversing earlier indications that it might allow non-food shops and hairdressers to reopen.
February032021
On Tuesday, 760 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Lithuania. The country has already detected 184 208 COVID-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic.
February032021
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has called on EU and global leaders to respond to the recent ruling by a Russian court that handed a real prison term to the Kremlin's biggest critic Alexey Navalny.
February022021
Lithuania's chief epidemiologist Loreta Asokliene says the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus could have arrived in the country and began to spread here back in November, but the strain is not dominant.
February022021
As unemployment continues to rise in Lithuania, the country's Minister of Social Security and Monika Navickiene has vowed to reorganize the Employment Service.
February022021
On Monday, 546 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Lithuania. 17 people died yesterday of COVID-19.
February022021
The numbers of COVID-19 vaccine dozes will go up as early as February and several hundred thousand vaccine dozes will be delivered to Lithuania every week in March and April, Simonas Krepsta, an adviser to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, says.
February012021
A person in Lithuania has been diagnosed with the British variant of the coronavirus, the Health Ministry confirmed on Monday.
February012021
The first batch of the coronavirus vaccine created by British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is expected in Lithuania on February 7, the country's Health Ministry says.
February012021
On Sunday, 355 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Lithuania. In total, the country has already detected 182 893 coronavirus cases.
January312021
Lithuania failed to improve its score in Transparency International's latest global Corruption Perception Index, staying at number 35 in the world.
January312021
Following the president-initiated Foreign Affairs Coordination Council's meeting in the middle of January, Asta Skaisgiryte, the president's chief advisor on foreign affairs, said that Lithuania's long-term strategy on the Belarusian issue should be drafted. It should be viewed as recognition that Lithuania's policy towards Belarus has not been effective.
January302021
The Union of Poles in Lithuania will carry out a census of the Polish minority in the country alongside the ongoing national census being carried out by the country's statistics service, Statistics Lithuania.
January292021
Lithuania's Ministry of Health plans to start mass vaccination of people against the coronavirus in the country in July. Until then, the plan is to immunize several dozen different priority groups, according to the vaccination plan released on Friday.
January292021
Lithuania's conservative MP Valdas Rakutis is stepping down as head of the parliamentary Commission for the Cause of Freedom and the National Historical Memory after his comments on the Holocaust drew widespread criticism.
January292021
The government has taken steps to bar China's state-controlled Nuctech from installing X-ray baggage scanning equipment at Lithuanian airports over national security concerns.
January292021
On Thursday, 860 new COVID-19 were recorded in Lithuania. In total, the country has already detected 181 028 coronavirus cases since the outbreak of the pandemic.
January282021
Pre-school and primary school teachers in Lithuania are expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19 over February, the country's Minister of Education, Science and Sports Jurgita Siugzdiniene says.