Lithuanian parliament sets week-long recess as COVID-19 cases spike

Lithuania’s parliament goes into a week-long hiatus from Tuesday to help contain the spread of COVID-19 among its members. The Baltic country’s government is considering extending and tightening its COVID-19 lockdown by closing shopping centres as the current level of restrictions had done little to curb a second wave of the disease among the population. The number of new COVID-19 infections in Lithuania more than doubled over the the past two weeks despite the lockdown that took effect on Nov. 3, when 316 cases per 100,000 people were registered over the preceding two weeks.