Evening Coronavirus

Russia without international flights until August. Lukashenka is confident that Belarus has defeated the pandemic. In the US, a record increase in cases

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are registered In Russia, for the seventh day in a row , less than seven thousand new cases of COVID-19 : 6,760 cases were detected per day. Yesterday there were 6556 cases. A total of 661,165 people have fallen ill since the start of the pandemic. During the day, 6,047 patients with covid recovered, for the entire time - 428,978. During the day, 147 people died, a total of 9,683 people.

Data on Russia in the form of a map and a table . We update them every day.

of coronavirus were detected per day In the United States , a record 50,655 new cases . will reopen In 19 California counties, where 70% of the state's population lives, recently opened bars, restaurants, cinemas, museums and zoos . The number of people infected in Sweden has exceeded 70 thousand , in India there are already more than 600 thousand cases .

Alexander Lukashenko said that coronavirus was defeated in Belarus . According to him, the country has shown "political sanity and folk wisdom." Hard quarantine was not introduced there. And in Kazakhstan they were introduced from mid-March to May 11 and now they are returning for at least two weeks . The first president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has recovered from covid .

World Data: Map and Table .

News that may affect you directly

The ban on international flights to Russia is likely to last until August 1. This is not accurate. This conclusion was made by RBC on the basis of the Rosaviatsia telegram. But it refers only to restrictions on the entry into Russia of "foreign citizens and stateless persons . " RBC does not cite quotes about the ban on flights.

An announcement about the sale of a database of Russian tourists appeared on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Twitter . We are talking about tourists stuck abroad due to the epidemic and receiving assistance from the Russian government. It was proposed to buy a database with data of 115 thousand people for 66 bitcoins - or 42.9 million rubles . The Foreign Ministry said that their page was hacked.

What else

Companies that have received the status of backbone complain about inconvenience . Companies included in this list can count on tax refunds, subsidies, preferential loans and government guarantees. At the same time, it is necessary to prepare a lot of reports for the authorities of different levels almost every day. Most of the participants in the list did not receive the promised help at all. Now companies want to abandon the status of backbone , but are afraid of "image losses".

The owner of the Anderson confectionery chain sold her stake in the business. In March, she asked Putin for support. Anastasia Totulova sold her share in the business to the investor and shareholder of Novaya Gazeta Alexander Lebedev and his wife Elena Perminova. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed, it is estimated at half a billion rubles. Totulova called the sale "salvation" : now she will be able to pay off the debts that have accumulated during the pandemic.

One and a half thousand British musicians have asked the government to help the industry . The appeal was signed by The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Coldplay and many others. The letter states that without urgent assistance, many concert venues will close and hundreds and thousands of people will be left without work . In 2019, the music industry contributed £4.5 billion to the UK economy.

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 a reader Zhenya wrote to us:

I am a medical student. My husband and I have been planning a pregnancy for a long time, and finally everything worked out. The last year of study (sixth year), I was worried about how I would walk in the last months, because giving birth in April was frightened by future absences and a growing number of debts in the form of working off. And here it’s just a gift of fate 😀 sit at home, do nothing, the session is the easiest in the history of the medical university. I think that I was incredibly lucky - I became a mother and a doctor, that is, two of my dreams came true during quarantine 😊

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