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Evening Coronavirus
Russia has overtaken China in terms of the number of cases. Nurses are leaving Kommunarka. Airfare has doubled in price
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Pulse
Russia has overtaken China in the number of reported coronavirus cases. There are 87,147 of them. Since Friday, when this mailing was last sent, the number of cases has increased by 18,525 people. The number of registered cases is not growing day by day and remains somewhere around six thousand. 794 people died. The CEO of the Metalloinvest holding died of pneumonia (two tests for coronavirus gave a negative result). 7346 people recovered (579 people were discharged per day). Here is a map with data for Russia and a table with the latest data by region.
In the world, three million people have been diagnosed with coronavirus . More than 206 thousand people died. Most reported cases are in the US, with most deaths in Italy, Spain and France. Some countries are gradually easing the quarantine regime: shops are opening in the Czech Republic , dentists and beauty salons are allowed to work in Switzerland . Scientists, meanwhile, continue to argue whether strict quarantine is still needed or not. We talk about the dispute between the leading British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson and his Swedish colleague Johan Gieseke, who believes that quarantine is not needed .
News that may affect you directly
Russian regions are gradually forcing everyone to wear masks. Such orders have already been issued by the authorities in the Kemerovo Region, the Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, the Ivanovo Region and Bashkiria. will soon join The Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk and Vladimir regions, as well as Yakutia and Sevastopol, . This is a common international practice: in some parts of Germany, fines have been introduced for appearing in a public place without a mask; in Madagascar, they are forcing street revenge .
Petersburgers were allowed to go to their dacha during the May holidays. with you You need to take your passport and a document stating that the dacha is yours or you are renting it. Stopping along the road is prohibited. Muscovites can also go to the dacha, but they will have to make an electronic pass, which is also valid in the Moscow Region. The systems for issuing passes, by the way, are imperfect .
The Ministry of Health, fortunately, changed its mind about stopping routine vaccination during the coronavirus epidemic. The officials seem to have read our text about why this is bad .
Prices for flights from Moscow have doubled in places. Prices have increased for all major companies : Aeroflot, S7, Ural Airlines and Utair. Aeroflot's price for a flight to Omsk increased the most — 2.4 times.
More and more Russian hospitals are being converted to treat coronavirus. People complain that help for other diseases has become more difficult to get. If you encounter this, please tell us .
What else
A former nurse at a hospital in Kommunarka said that dozens of her colleagues had quit. According to her, the nurses do not have enough protective equipment and they are not paid the money promised by Vladimir Putin . Denis Protsenko, the head physician of the hospital in Kommunarka, however, replied that we were talking about employees of a private company who “worked on outsourcing”, who were not entitled to additional payments.
After the coronavirus epidemic, Turkish hotels will abandon the buffet. This is necessary so that people collide with each other less. Turkey expects to open the country for tourists in August .
In Russia, the Immortal Regiment will be held online. Usually, the action in memory of the participants of the Great Patriotic War takes place in the form of marches: people carry portraits of their ancestors. This time, everyone will be asked to send photos, and then they will make a video sequence out of them . The action will be shown on TV.
The founder of the Sredneuralsky convent was banned from preaching because of his statements about the coronavirus. He said that covid does not exist, and urged "to go out into the street, not being afraid of the police and the National Guard, to plant potatoes."
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Here is what our reader Maya wrote to us:
Because of the name, from school (not as often as I would like, but still) familiar people call me: they want to dial “Mom”, but the finger somehow moves down to “Maya” by itself. This never happens with friends, but a classmate, a friend from the courses, a neighbor in the country - it happens once every couple of years. And yesterday I probably talked for half an hour with one of those good acquaintances, who still accidentally dialed my number after 9-10 years. I walk and smile for the second day: how cool it is to talk live with someone else, except for those who are with you every day. Try also calling someone you haven't talked to in a while - now it will be even more pleasant!
So, we all call Maya. And better for mom.
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