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Lithuania has registered 911 new coronavirus infections and nine deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the country's statistics office said on Wednesday morning.

A lot of things can be expected to go back to normal once the Covid-19 pandemic is truly over. Restaurants, cruise ships and resort towns will be packed again. Spending on home improvements will subside.

In record speed, vaccines are here, and more are on their way. Less than a year since the coronavirus began ravaging the world, the first shots are raising hopes for wiping the Covid-19 pandemic from the face of the earth.

The conventional wisdom is that you should ask your manager for a pay raise every year. Yet fear of rejection can be enough of a reason to avoid raising the question. During a pandemic it seems even harder to think such a request would be welcomed.

Lithuania is testing too few people to know the true scope of the pandemic, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on Thursday, adding that the real number of infected people could be much higher.

Lithuanians have a positive view of the European Union's existing anti-pandemic measures, but 65 percent of the country's residents would like the EU to have more powers to tackle the pandemic, and 44 percent would want more funds, a new survey commissioned by the European Parliament shows.

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The most attention-grabbing scare stories about the pandemic often revolve around individual cases — someone who got the disease twice; a young, fit person who died; an older person who was likely infectious for more than two months. The fear is that these phenomena could be widespread, but scientis...

Judging by its largest banks, you’d hardly know Europe was in the grip of a worsening pandemic.

Lithuania is one of the few EU member countries where people's optimism about the national economy has increased over the year, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.

While Amazon.com Inc. and its FANG cohort have grabbed the headlines, some of the biggest stock-market winners in Europe during the coronavirus pandemic may be companies you’ve never heard of.

On Sunday 51 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Lithuania. Overall, 3386 coronavirus cases have been detected in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic.

Lithuania is of next week raising the threshold at which countries are considered affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to 25 cases per 100,000 people over the past 14 days, from 16 cases currently, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said on Friday.

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.

COVID-19 has made one thing inevitable: leisure venues are not going back to business as usual for the foreseeable future. Concepts such as social distancing and the 1.5-meter economy will redefine social interaction and, ultimately, shape many aspects of how people and venues behave in the future.

Lithuania's Economy and Innovation Ministry is preparing a new measure to compensate the costs of every third night spent by tourists in Lithuania to promote inbound tourism after the coronavirus pandemic.

The Seimas decided to call on the European Commission to take measures necessary to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences in a coordinated and unified manner.

After the global coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan it has affected people all over the world. Freedom of movement has completely collapsed. Coronavirus has turned citizen lives upside down in each country in a matter of months destroying the economy at the same time.

On 3 June, in response to Belarus’ request for international assistance, the Government adopted a resolution allocating EUR 50,000 from the State reserve to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide humanitarian assistance to Belarus in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hungary's Wizz Air is on Tuesday relaunching its regular service between Palanga and Dortmund, marking the first flight from the western Lithuanian airport since the country closed its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic in the second half of March.