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We found out that an FSO officer died from the coronavirus. In the Russian Orthodox Church - mass infections. The US economy has fallen more than expected

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There are 99,399 cases of coronavirus infection in Russia. During the day, 5841 new cases were detected - 570 people less than the day before. 108 patients died - more than died in one day since the beginning of the epidemic. We found out that, among others, a 34-year-old FSO officer died from the coronavirus . 10,286 people recovered (+1830 people per day). The governor of the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, assures that his region has “reached a plateau . ” More than a third of Russians are unhappy with excessive restrictions due to the coronavirus . The number of unemployed has approached a million (this is official).

Map with data for Russia and a table with the latest data by region.

Over a million cases of infection have been identified in the United States. Nearly 60,000 people have died from the coronavirus. The NYT writes that far from all the dead are taken into account: at least seven states have seen a sharp increase in mortality in general . But even that statistic doesn't count Lorna Breen, the New York City doctor who committed suicide .

News that may affect you directly

Moscow e-passes for commuting will expire on May 4. Everyone who plans to travel to work from the 5th to the 11th needs to make new ones .

In Russian churches and monasteries, both parishioners and priests are massively infected. The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church demands that services be held without parishioners, but many priests (and even more parishioners) are not ready for this. Believers accuse the clergy of cowardice and unbelief. We tell how the Church is coping with the coronavirus .

Aeroflot will not refund money for canceled flights. Instead, passengers will be given vouchers .

Russians with a residence permit or a second citizenship were allowed to leave Russia. But only once . True, it will be difficult to do this: regular international air traffic has been stopped, land border checkpoints are closed. Foreigners have extended the ban on entry into Russia until the “improvement of the epidemiological situation.”

In Russia, due to the coronavirus, 24 social groups were in the most vulnerable position. Among them: prisoners, residents of psycho-neurological boarding schools (PNI), homeless people, HIV-positive people, conscripts, migrants, transgender people, students who live in hostels. Let's talk about how we can help them .

What else

The United States reported on the situation with the economy in the first quarter. The US economy, the world's largest economy, contracted 4.8% . This is the largest quarterly decline since the last quarter of 2008, when the economic crisis hit. Bloomberg notes that the report was worse than analysts expected.

The medical publication Vademecum was blocked for reporting that in Moscow hospitals would receive money from the CHI fund for the treatment of covid only if the patient was brought in by ambulance. The prosecutor's office considered the news a fake, although it was written according to a letter from the MHI fund. The publication had to delete the message, but the editors intend to sue Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General's Office. We talked to journalists .

Medical students were promised a salary of 100,000 rubles for working in coronavirus hospitals. True, one of the students said that students are being forced to go to coronavirus hospitals under the threat of academic debt .

Russians began to buy less healthy food and more chips and ice cream. according to Nielsen, which studies the demand for everyday goods From March 30 to April 5, sales of chips increased by 22% and ice cream by 15%, . At the same time, the demand for muesli fell by 53%, and for smoothies - by 45%. The researchers also noticed that the Russians began to buy more ingredients needed to prepare complex dishes.

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During the quarantine, I improved my professional skills and began to “sell” myself more expensively. She also learned to stand on her hands. In general, everything is going according to plan.

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