Foreign nationals coming to Lithuania from third countries must self-isolate for two weeks, according to a resolution signed by Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga on Friday.

Lithuania will make it mandatory for arrivals from third countries to undergo testing for COVID-19 and go into two-week isolation, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday.

On 15 July Lithuania has registered 21 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, its biggest one-day jump in a month."Twenty-one cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed yesterday," the National Public Health Center (NPHC) said.

The passenger transportation arm of Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) has launched market consultations on renewing its train fleet, with plans to purchase new passenger trains for over 200 mln euros.

At the end of 2019, a total of 115 electronic money institutions (EMIs) and payment institutions (PIs) operated in Lithuania, comprising a one-fifth increase compared to the previous year.

Nasdaq Vilnius is resuming trading in Grigeo shares on Tuesday after the Lithuanian paper and cardboard producer released its audited annual report for 2019, the stock exchange said.

Lithuania's tour operator Tez Tour will run more flights to Greek islands after cancelling travel to Bulgaria due to a spike in coronavirus cases.

Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), which was shut down a decade ago and is now being decommissioned, last week rejected all three bids submitted by potential contractors in a tender process for the construction of a 100-million-euro near surface repository for low and intermediate level short-lived radioactive waste, known as the B25-2 project.

Lithuania recorded positive net migration once again in June as the number of people arriving in the country from abroad nearly twice exceeded the number of those leaving, figures from the country's statistics office showed.

Utenos Trikotazas (Utena Knitwear), Lithuania's largest knitwear manufacturer operated by SBA concern, has sold its Latvia’s subsidiary Utenas Trikotaza.