Evening Coronavirus

22 April. Quarantine violators will be punished more severely. In Bashkiria, the hospital has become a breeding ground for COVID-19. The world economy will be very bad

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In Russia, the number of cases is growing at the same rate - 5236 per day (a total of 57,999 cases). since the start of the epidemic More than 500 people have died . 4420 people recovered (+547 per day). 109 thousand tests for coronavirus were carried out in Russia per day. Here is a map with data for Russia and a table with the latest data by region.

The World Health Organization has warned that the world has a long way to go in the fight against the coronavirus. “The virus is with us for a long time,” WHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.

World Data: Map and Table .

News that may affect you directly

Sergei Sobyanin proposed introducing digital passes throughout Russia. So it will be easier for the authorities to control the movement of Russians . So far, the system of passes is operating in Moscow and the Moscow region, the Primorsky and Krasnoyarsk territories, as well as in part of the Volga region.

In Moscow, quarantine violations will be punished more severely. The Supreme Court clarified that when choosing a punishment, it is necessary to apply the federal code of administrative offenses, and not the Moscow one. In general, the fines should not be five thousand, but thirty . True, drivers who left without them on the first day of mandatory passes for cars are still being fined five (but automatically) .

As hospitals are being converted to accommodate coronavirus patients, it is becoming harder for others to get help. According to Kommersant, people with chronic hepatitis, cystic fibrosis, primary immunodeficiency, and rheumatic diseases complain about this. The problem affected several thousand people . In addition, due to the epidemic in Russia, routine vaccination is suspended, and this is bad .

We spoke with a doctor from a large Moscow clinic where patients with coronavirus are treated. She said that one of the problems now is too many mildly ill patients are hospitalized .

The problem is that the order is to hospitalize everyone with pneumonia. Everyone gets a CT scan, sometimes at the local clinic, and they go with the CT done. At one time, everyone with positive coronavirus smears was hospitalized. Everyone who coughs is being hospitalized. Today I myself signed a waiver of hospitalization. In fact, it is recommended to go to the hospital only if you have respiratory failure. But visiting ambulance doctors and visiting doctors from the polyclinic cannot always adequately assess whether there is respiratory failure, and therefore they generally take everyone. And a very large load on the ambulance, on the emergency department.

Russian and foreign organizations that fight domestic violence have noticed an increase in the number of complaints from victims. In China, they talk about a three-fold increase, in Lebanon - a two-fold increase, in Russia, where official statistics are not kept, about 10-25%. State Duma deputies Oksana Pushkina and Irina Rodnina asked the government to help victims of domestic violence, but so far no action has been taken.

What else

We published, as Petr Lokhov, editor of the special correspondent department, put it, a thriller from Bashkiria. This is a text about the events in the republican hospital, where since March, patients have been massively ill with pneumonia of unknown origin. Doctors asked to start testing patients for coronavirus, but the management refused. As a result, the hospital turned into a hotbed for COVID-19 : people were discharged from there, they ended up in other hospitals and infected people there. Now Bashkiria is in third place in terms of the number of deaths from coronavirus in Russia.

Ratings agency Fitch predicts the economy will be much worse off due to the coronavirus than it was during the 2008-2009 crisis. Experts expect global GDP to contract by 3.9 percent . In recent decades , there has been only one year when the world economy has declined - 2009 . Then GDP decreased by 1.7 percent. Today's examples of the impact of coronavirus on the economy: in Russia they stopped producing french fries , the chain of coffee shops "Shokoladnitsa" was going to close half of the establishments , Moscow entrepreneurs in a documentary say that they may not survive the quarantine .

Salt began to be bought up in Russia. The reason is the recommendations of the Ministry of Health to rinse the nose with saline to prevent COVID-19. Don't rush to the store: World Health Organization advice says salt won't help with coronavirus .

The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit against China. Attorney General Eric Schmitt accused China of hiding information about the spread of COVID-19; denied that the coronavirus is transmitted from person to person; persecuted doctors who talked about the disease; allowed millions of people to come into contact with the virus. How China should answer to Missouri is not specified in the lawsuit.

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Here is what a reader Marina wrote to us:

Hello. Our family went to the dacha, my husband drives a car in the city during the day - he works, I walk with the children almost all day on the site. The eldest son (7 years old) learned how to work with a saw, hammer and screwdriver, he made a chest, a stool and a small wardrobe for his children's house. In the morning, he rather runs outside, crafts all day, refuses cartoons, eats on the terrace so as not to waste time. Today, the children and I planted greenery, prepared the beds for the season. The husband arrives in the evening and makes crafts with the children. Happiness)

Thank you for sharing something good. This is now lacking.

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