The first measles case has been registered in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas on Friday.
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821 cases of measles have been registered in Lithuania this year, the National Public Health Center reported on Friday.
Some 538 cases of measles have been diagnosed in Lithuania since the start of this year, the latest figures from the National Public Health Center showed on Thursday.
A group of Lithuanian lawmakers, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats and the social democrats, suggest changing the law and only accepting children vaccinated from measles into the country's kindergarten.
The number of diagnosed cases of measles has risen to 397 in Lithuania, which is 100 more than last week, the latest figures from the National Public Health Center showed on Thursday.