This year's sixth tanker with oil for Belarus, this time from Norway, arrived in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda on Monday.

Every company can make a significant contribution to the fight against the pandemic in Vilnius. The biggest task at the moment is to provide hospitals in the city with the inventory and personal protective equipment needed to combat the COVID-19 virus. Most recently, a search for manufacturers and suppliers of such equipment has been taking place.

Statement by European Parliament President David Sassoli on Eurogroup meeting

As some online vendors exploit fears around the coronavirus outbreak to peddle fake cures or hike prices, the EU is taking action.

Maxima, one of the largest retail chains in Lithuania, has received an approximately 1.5 mln euros worth shipment containing several millions of disposable face masks and gloves, which will be sold in the stores of the chain and in the pharmacies of Eurovaistine, a pharmacy chain that is part of Maxima group.

- Vakaru Medienos Grupe (VMG), one of the largest wood processing and furniture production groups in the Baltic states, said on Monday it was temporarily suspending production.

A 16 kilometers long line of passenger cars has built up at the Grenctale crossing on Latvian-Lithuanian border, Zane Plone, a representative of the Latvian Road Transport Administration.

As Lithuania plans to liberalize its electricity retail market in 2021-2023, Enefit, part of the Estonia energy business group Eesti Energia, has started supplying electricity to some Lithuanian households on Wednesday.

The central Bank of Lithuania has suggested establishing a special fund to provide swift temporary financial assistance to big and socially important companies facing difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis and failing to receive bank loans.

Lithuania's wet-lease and charter services provider GetJet Airline has given lay-off notices to 370 employees.