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Evening Coronavirus
The Victory Parade will be held in June. We tell how the fate of the Unified State Examination was decided during the pandemic. In Russia, a record number of recovered and dead per day
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Pulse
In Russia, a record for recovered and dead per day : 12,331 and 174 people, respectively. In total, 131,129 people have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,807 have died. The head of the Ministry of Construction, Vladimir Yakushev, has recovered and returned to work . died The Minister of Fuel and Energy in the first government of Russia, Vladimir Lopukhin, in three months of 2020 . According to the Ministry of Health, more of the country's able-bodied population died than in three months of last year. The Ministry of Health also announced that 101 doctors died of covid in Russia . There are 302 surnames in the Memory List , which is maintained by the doctors themselves.
During the day, 8915 new cases of infection were detected, for the entire time there are already 362,342 of them. About 100 people working at the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant fell ill. Among them are employees of Rosatom. Ramzan Kadyrov wrote that he had held a meeting of the operational headquarters in Grozny. Last week, the media reported that Kadyrov was taken to a Moscow hospital .
Due to the restrictions imposed by the Moscow authorities, a million people are not working in the city . This is 15% of the Moscow economy. against the head of a rural settlement in Adygea A criminal case was opened after 155 people were infected at a funeral. In Moscow, a criminal case was opened against a man who checked into a hostel with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 .
We update data on coronavirus in Russia daily. Here they are in map and table form .
The number of cases of covid in the world has exceeded five and a half million people . WHO warned of the danger of a second wave of the pandemic, which will happen if you rush to lift restrictions. Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has refused to step down or apologize for violating his proposed lockdown . Hungary will lift the state of emergency on June 20 and take away additional powers from Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his cabinet. The expansion of Orban's powers was criticized both in Hungary and in the European Union .
News that may affect you directly
The Human Rights Council proposed to cancel all fines issued through the Social Monitoring application. Moscow City Hall vs. Alexei Nemeryuk, First Deputy Head of the Office of the Mayor and Government of Moscow, said that the application helps to identify malicious violators of the regime . They are repeatedly fined, and, according to Nemeryuk, they do it completely legally. We wrote about how badly Social Monitoring works: fines come to those who did not violate anything, and because of the need to constantly take selfies and not turn off geolocation, the phone quickly runs out of power.
We tell how the fate of the Unified State Examination was decided during the pandemic - and how it will pass. The Ministry of Education, Rosobrnadzor and the Ministry of Education offered their options for conducting exams. It was assumed that they would be finalized by the government, the State Duma and the Federation Council. But in the end, Putin decided everything , and the officials had to adjust to him.
What else
The Victory Parade will be held on June 24, the Immortal Regiment and the Naval Parade on July 26 . This was announced by Vladimir Putin. An Interfax source claims that June 24 will be declared a day off - this is Wednesday. Putin added that the procession of the Immortal Regiment could be postponed if the danger of infection persists.
Memes about purified nature are not true . About this new episode of the podcast “What happened?” . Unfortunately, the reduction in carbon emissions that we are seeing due to the reduction in road and air travel will have almost no effect on the climate. And after the crisis, emissions are likely to rise sharply because of the desire of governments to win back economic losses.
Coronavirus statistics in Russia can be falsified at the federal level. Analyst Boris Ovchinnikov came to this conclusion after noticing a number of anomalies in the data over the past 25 days. For example, during this period, the number of detected cases ended four times in 99. The probability of such a coincidence is 0.011%, “or one case in 9350 attempts,” writes Ovchinnikov.
WHO has suspended trials of malaria drugs that were proposed to treat covid . One of them was taken by Donald Trump for prevention. New research has shown that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, alone or in combination with antibiotics, increase the risk of mortality .
Gogol Center has raised more than one and a half million rubles for hospitals treating covid patients . The actors joined the action #helpingdoctors, launched by the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Theater and the Theater magazine, and read documentary monologues of doctors. Here you can watch monologues performed by Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Gudkov and Alexei Agranovich .
PS There is not a lot of good news in this newsletter, so tell us what good things are happening to you while quarantine is around. And we will tell your stories to make it easier for all of us.
Reader Elena wrote such a kind, but such a large letter that we had to shorten it a little:
I want to share good news. My daughter and I spent the past two days walking in a beautiful forest along our favorite, unique ski-roller track. We cut circles, admiring and admiring the beautiful Ural nature and the air filled with aromas, actively communicating during the walk, since we live separately. My daughter shares her fears for the future, and I try to dispel those fears.
I tell her that she needs to live here and now, one day, enjoy simple things, because there are so many beautiful things around! In the forest, there are simply fantastic firs, pines and incomparable beautiful lindens! And lots of ants! Forest flowers delight the eye with their simplicity and tenderness. Squirrels jump up the trees, dressed in red fur coats. Returning to our conversation, I told my daughter that there are many things in life that are worth living for! This time we never laughed during the walk… My daughter took me home. On the way, she said that she needed to go to the store. I stayed in the car, she quickly returned, in her hands was a luxurious white chrysanthemum, like a bride! I asked: “Who is this flower for?” She: "For you!" I was happy! I think that Marinochka felt better after our walk and she remembered that it is worth living in order to give joy to her neighbor! The next day, when she brought me home, she handed me a bag of lemons, saying, “These are your vitamins!” And I was happy again!
Thanks for sharing such a good story!
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