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According to Hockey Canada, the Glinka Cup/Walztky youth tournament was cancelled due to a coronavirus pandemic. The tournament takes place annually in Edmonton and Red Deer. This year superiority was to take place in the period from August 3 to August 8. Last year Russian national team became the winner of tournament, having defeated in the ending Canada with the score 3:2. Before that Russians didn t conquer gold medals since 1995. ...

Over the past 24 hours, only five new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Lithuania. This is the lowest result in a month in Lithuania, the correspondent reports news agency today, April 28. The last increase of six infected in Lithuania was recorded on March 16. At the same time, the National Center for Public Health changed the form of counting, stopping the announcement of data of positive tests, as they can be carried out several times by one patient, which causes confusion in statistics. From today, only the number of infected is announced. Thus, according to the center, 1,344 infections have been detected in Lithuania during the whole time. At the same time, as early as April 27, 1,449 positive results of tests were reported, but, as today stressed in the department, this figure is not equal to the number of infected. In general, in Lithuania today, excluding the number of recovery, 808 COVID-19 patients, 44 deaths, 536 recovered, 601 people are in isolation. ...

The unemployment rate in Japan reached 2.5% for March 2020, according to the report of the Japanese Ministry of the Interior, NHK reported. The unemployment rate is said to have risen by just 0.1%. In particular, the number of unemployed increased by 20,000 compared to the same period in 2019. At the same time, the number of employed by 130,000 people also increased. However, the increase in unemployment is attributed by the Japanese authorities to the new type of coronavirus pandemic and its consequences for the world economy. In particular, it is alleged that the number of employees in the production sector, hotel and restaurant business has decreased, but the number of employees in the fields of health care, sales and social services has increased. ...