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Lithuania’s outgoing Health minister urges parliament to suspend work

2020-11-26
BNS/TBT staff

Lithuania's outgoing Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has on November 20 called on the Seimas to suspend its work for at least two weeks amid a coronavirus outbreak in the parliamentary group of the Liberal Movement, a member of the new center-right government coalition.&n...

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