Evening Coronavirus

We explain why the lifting of quarantine is a bad idea. Half a million people fell ill in Russia. What will happen to the Russian economy

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have been detected in Russia Since the beginning of the pandemic , more than half a million cases of COVID-19 : 502,436 people have already become infected, 8,779 of them over the past day. During the day, 8367 people recovered, in total - 261,150 people. During the day, 174 patients with covid died, for all the time - 6532 people. The WHO said that the low death rate from coronavirus in Russia is "difficult to understand" . Orderlies in Moscow who transport the bodies of the dead have complained that they are not being paid extra for their work with the coronavirus . According to one of the employees, they were told in the Moscow depzdrav: “Corpses do not breathe.”

We collect data about the coronavirus in Russia every day. Here they are in map and table form .

have been sick in the United States since the start of the pandemic More than two million people . There are already 7,369,652 infected people in the world. In Thailand, for the first time in 17 days, not a single case of coronavirus was detected per day. The European Commission recommended that EU countries start opening external borders from July 1. Travelers from Russia will not be allowed in yet. On June 15, Finland will open its borders to tourists from neighboring countries - except Sweden. The Italian prosecutor's office will interrogate the prime minister, as well as the ministers of the interior and health . Prosecutors are investigating the government's response to the outbreak in Lombardy.

World Data: Map and Table .

News that may affect you directly

We spoke with Russian economists about what will happen to unemployment, income and business . There will be more poor people, the middle class will continue to shrink , unemployment will not reach pre-crisis levels until autumn 2021. The measures taken by the state to support citizens and businesses are clearly insufficient.

The Moscow authorities promised to remove the personal data of citizens from the pass system. This will happen as soon as all courts on fines for violation of access control are over. Also, personal data must be deleted from the database of the Social Monitoring application.

Museum parks will open from June 16 . Only for visitors in masks and gloves . Masks will also be required to be worn by museum staff. Museums were recommended to sell electronic tickets, and to recruit no more than five people in excursion groups. for visitors On June 16 , the Tretyakov Gallery will open . The Pushkin Museum expects to open on July 10.

What else

We explain why lifting quarantine in Moscow is now very risky . According to our calculations, in Moscow at the end of May there were about 300,000 infected people who could infect others. Epidemiologists are confident that if restrictions are lifted now, this will lead to a new increase in the number of cases throughout Russia.

The owner of the brands Zara, Bershka, Pull & Bear and Massimo Dutti will close at least a thousand stores . worldwide in 2020-2022 Between 1,000 and 1,200 stores will close . The Inditex report says that these are small stores that have been operating for a long time and are located in not the best places.

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.

Here is what the reader Vladimir wrote to us:

Good evening, Medusa!

We are web developers from our beloved, and quarantine is full of work. We set up workplaces at home with two pairs of monitors. I finally found the time to get to my hackintosh. This is when Apple's Catalina operating system is installed on a regular computer. It is difficult with it, since it is not always smoothly installed and demanding on the selection of components. At the end of last year, I decided to upgrade an old hackintosh, and after the upgrade, my keyboard and mouse did not work. And only in mid-May they brought a new computer with hardware compatible with both Catalina and Windows for games. Before everything started, I had to suffer for two weeks, the system was not installed. But now everything works: I work on Catalina, and I play on Windows. Closer to autumn we want to order a helmet for virtual reality. Don't get sick and try learning javascript or flutter!

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