The basic pay rate for politicians, judges, officers, civil servants and other employees of budgetary institutions will not be restored to the pre-crisis 2009 level of 183 euros in 2021 due to the coronavirus crisis and a drop in wages in the private sector, Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis says.

Lithuania's Health Ministry has updated its list of coronavirus-affected countries and people arriving from Norway, Hungary and Canada will be required to self-isolate from Monday.

People arriving in Lithuania from Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia and Belarus will need to self-isolate for two weeks as of Monday, Lithuania's Health Ministry said on Friday.

As part of preparations for the construction of Rail Baltica's segment from Kaunas via Panevezys to the border with Latvia, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) is seeking contractors to build or upgrade roads related to the European standard-gauge railway project.

Lithuania's Cabinet will on Wednesday consider extending border controls at airports and seaport until September 14.

The Cabinet agreed in principle to exempt Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports, LOU) from transferring 9.7 million euros of its 2019 profit into the state's coffers to prevent the state-owned company from becoming insolvent.

A two-year renovation of the electricity transmission and distribution grid in the Curonian Spit has been completed, increasing its capacity and reliability, Litgrid said on Tuesday.

Belarus may officially open its Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) on Friday in a symbolic move ahead of this weekend's presidential election, but the facility is unlikely to start actual operations until late this year or early next year.

Yukon Advanced Optics Worldwide, a Lithuanian producer of digital night vision and other optical devices that is owned by Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian citizens, has founded a new company for investment in undisclosed business areas.

Lithuanian banks have deferred payments on mortgages worth over 280 million euros since the middle of March when the country's was put under quarantine, the Association of Lithuanian Banks told.