Lithuania to dim Christmas lights to honour Covid-19 victims
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Christmas lights on Pilies Street in Vilnius / E. Blaževič/LRT
Towns across Lithuania are switching off Christmas lights for one hour on Wednesday evening to pay respects to the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The initiative has been proposed by the volunteer coordination centre Stiprūs Kartu (Strong Together) and the Association of Local Authorities.
“We invite Lithuanian people to symbolically turn off festive decorations and switch off Christmas tree lights from 19:00 to 20:00 to honour the direct and indirect victims of Covid-19,” the centre posted on Facebook.
The organisers invite everyone to stop and think about people “experiencing loss or hardship during the pandemic”, it said.