Evening coronavirus

April 9. Regions introduce quarantine for visitors. In Moscow, people are fined for going onto the sports ground. Restaurants feed doctors for free

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Pulse

In Russia, the number of cases exceeded 10 thousand people . In the Bryansk region, the number of cases has doubled:the Christian Church “Awakening” has become the center of the spread of coronavirus. Now local residents are threatening parishioners with death. During the day, 13 people died from the disease: seven in Moscow, three in the Moscow region, two in St. Petersburg and one in the Perm Territory. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 76 people have died. 698 people were discharged from hospitals (+118 per day). A million tests for coronavirus have been carried out in Russia.

Globally, the number of recorded cases has exceeded one and a half million. In Spain, over 15 thousand people have died since the beginning of the epidemic (we have a detailed text about the situation there). Only Italy has more: during this day the number of deaths exceeded 18 thousand . In New York, where the most cases were identified in the United States, only 200 people were hospitalized over the past 24 hours—fewer than before. However, the mortality rate there is still high - 799 people have died.

You can always see the current coronavirus situation in the world on a map or in a table . Data is updated once a day. The data can be viewed dynamically on the map.

News that may affect you directly

We have collected answers to all questions about coronavirus in one place. From how (and whether) to wear a mask to whether the coronavirus could have “escaped” from a laboratory. Now there is one link that you can send to your friends. In the same material you can ask a question if you did not find the answer to your question there. And today there were cards about whether you should wear rubber gloves. Answer: not necessary .

Regions began to introduce quarantine for visitors - mainly for Muscovites and St. Petersburg residents. Here is a list of regions where after arrival you will need to stay in isolation for two weeks.

In Moscow, nine people were fined for violating the self-isolation regime. Here is an example of one offense from our news:

The Preobrazhensky court fined a woman who, “in the absence of the grounds provided for by the mayor’s decree,” was on a sports ground more than a hundred meters from her house. “At the same time, she tore off the barrier tape,” the agency clarifies.

What else

Restaurants are now closed, but many continue to prepare food for doctors. The problem is that the state does not provide doctors with food, and it is difficult for those who work with coronavirus patients to eat. To go to the canteen, they need to take off their protective suit, and then put it on again - this is half an hour to an hour of wasted time . We talked with restaurateurs and volunteers who deliver food to doctors in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Ryazan and other cities.

There is an outbreak of coronavirus in the Moscow City Duma. Several deputies and several staff members fell ill. But how many people have been infected is not known for certain due to poor quality tests. In the Chelyabinsk region, Governor Alexey Teksler went into self-isolation: coronavirus was found on his press secretary .

Moscow is about to create a surveillance system for foreigners. According to Kommersant, it should start working when the borders open. The movements of foreigners are supposed to be tracked based on data from mobile operators .

PS There's not a lot of good news in this newsletter, so tell us what's going on good for you while the coronavirus is around. And we will publish one story in each letter.

Here's what reader Alexander wrote to us:

We live in our own house outside the city, so quarantine itself is not as difficult to endure as it is for people in small apartments. In addition, I have more free time for household chores. This included building a tree house for my six-year-old son, which he had been asking for for the last six months. If it weren’t for quarantine, I don’t even know if I would ever have found time for this. Now both children and adults enjoy climbing into this house.

We could all use a treehouse right now 🙂 🏡

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