Latvia shuts down travel to and from multiple African countries
To prevent the entry and the spread of the new and potentially more contagious Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus in Latvia, the…
Category: Current news
Residents in Latgale warned about possible power outages due to heavy snowfall
According to forecasts from Latvia’s State Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, on 29 November the country’s eastern territories will experience heavy snowfall and…
Lidl to open up two new stores in Riga
This December Lidl will open two new stores in Riga, as confirmed by the company. A new Lidl store will open its doors…
Three pregnant women die of Covid-19 in Latvia
Covid-19 has claimed the lives of three pregnant women in Latvia, as confirmed by P.Stradins Clinical University Hospital Women’s and Child Health Clinic’s…
PrivatBank fined by Latvian Finance and Capital Market Commission
Latvia’s Finance and Capital Market Commission has decided to fine AS PrivatBank EUR 768 653 for violations of the Law on the Prevention…
How Freeport of Ventspils authority [didn’t] support a company heavily impacted by Covid-19
Promises from the Latvian government to provide support to businesses impacted by Covid-19 pandemic were as though manna from heaven in the last…
Latvian government permits Christmas markets
On Thursday, 25 November, the Operational Management Group (OVG) reached a conceptual agreement to permit Christmas markets in spite of Covid-19 pandemic in…
European Medicines Agency permits use of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on 5-11 year old children
On Thursday, 25 November, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the use of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty for children under the age of…
Latvia sends multiple illegal migrants back to their country of origin
Another 35 of the illegal migrants who have arrived in Latvia from Belarus have either already left for their country of origin or…
