Here’s what the last two weeks of coronavirus coverage have looked like in the Lithuanian media. When the virus was still far away, we observed a large but steady volume of information. The biggest spike was recorded when Italy announced the first deaths, and yesterday, after the case of infection in Estonia was announced, the number of reports in the media reached unprecedented heights - 934 articles were published. It will be interesting to see today’s result after the first case was confirmed in Lithuania? We’ll let you in on the secret - by 5 p.m. today, 1,027 articles had already been published!
