NEW RULES FOR TRAVELING TO AND FROM LITHUANIA FROM 3 APRIL
AIR, SEA AND LAND ROADS
From 3 April 2020, 00:00 the entry of persons and / or their cars into the territory of Lithuania will be allowed only through the following international state border crossing points: Kalvarija – Budzisko (only for those in Poland), Saločiai – Grenstalė. Diplomatic transport is allowed to pass through all land border crossing points. From 4 April 2020, 00:00 it is prohibited to transport passengers and their cars to Lithuania by ferries, except for the route Kiel-Klaipeda-Kiel or with the permission of the Minister of Interior, and flights to and from Lithuanian international airports are operated only after obtaining a separate permit issued by the Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration.
PEOPLE PERMITTED TO ENTER LITHUANIA
The citizens of Lithuania as well as the crew members, who are employed in Lithuanian companies engaged in international commercial transportation, or who carry out international commercial transportation by all the means of transport, also persons entitled to reside in Lithuania, diplomats, consuls, persons serving in NATO and NATO military units and the personnel serving them and their family members, persons in transit and exceptional cases with the approval of the Government.
PEOPLE PERMITTED TO LEAVE LITHUANIA
All the foreign nationals. Lithuanians are only permitted to leave the country if they return to their permanent place of residence, go to their place of employment, are crew members, who are employed in Lithuanian companies engaged in international commercial transportation, or who carry out international commercial transportation of all kinds of goods by all the means of transport, or have the permission of the Head of the State Border Guard Service.
ISOLATION UPON RETURNING FROM ABROAD
Persons who have returned from foreign countries fall subject to 14 days’ isolation (with certain exceptions for transporters, members of official delegations, diplomats and special couriers, foreigners in transit). The National Center for Public Health
under the Ministry of Health organizes screening of all persons who return or arrive from abroad for symptoms of COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) at international border crossing points.
CONDITIONS FOR TRANSITING
Persons returning to their country of residence are allowed to transit through the territory of Lithuania without a stopover until 13 April 2020, 24:00, by forming groups of persons or means of transport led by a convoy from the point of arrival to the departure of Lithuania through the international border crossing points.
