Lithuania on Friday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus Covid-19, diagnosed in a woman who recently returned from Italy, the government said.

The Seimas has proclaimed 2020 as the year of eminent eighteenth-century sage Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (the Vilna Gaon) and Lithuanian Jews. This anniversary is also included in the UNESCO list of anniversaries for 2020-2021. To mark the 300th anniversary of the Vilna Gaon (1720-1797), the Government has approved a plan to commemorate this important anniversary in 2020, which includes dozens of cultural and historical events.

Representatives of American electric car giant Tesla are in Vilnius on Thursday as the company is considering creating a network of charging stations for electric vehicles in the country reported.

Norwegian police investigating suspicions of employee exploitation by Vlantana Norge have searched the Lithuanian-owned haulage firm's premises, frozen its banks accounts and seized seven trucks.

The number of registered job vacancies for salaried employees in Lithuania totaled 17,300 at the end of 2019, up by 7.7% from a year earlier, Statistics Lithuania said.

German-owned Estonian company Leonhard Weiss has replaced Hidrostatyba, a Lithuanian company that filed for restructuring in late 2019, as the for the construction of the 55-million-euro Kaunas-Palemonas segment of the European-gauge railway Rail Baltica.

Lithuania picked its representative for the annual Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday and will be represented by The Roop and their song "On Fire".

The Baltic countries may in the coming weeks reach a common position on restricting electricity imports from Belarus' Astravyets nuclear power plant, Lithuanian Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas said the Zinio Radijas radio station.

Maxima, one of the largest retail chains in Lithuania, which sold some 11 tons of possibly salmonella-contaminated meat and its products supplied by Biovela, says it destroyed all fresh meat it had in its stores on Feb 7, around 160 tons of meat supplied by various suppliers.

Lithuania's retail chain Maxima on Friday halted the sale of fresh meat after microbiological contamination was identified in pork neck and ham supplied by meat producer Biovela. Meat supplies were later resumed, Maxima said.