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Evening coronavirus
In Russia - 10 thousand dead. Bars are closing again in Israel. Australia closes border for first time since Spanish flu
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Pulse
More than 10,000 people have died from the coronavirus in Russia. As of July 6, 10,296 patients died (over the past day - 135, yesterday - 134 , the day before yesterday - 168 ). 6611 people fell ill per day, the day before - 6736. In total, since the beginning of the epidemic - 687,862 people. 454,329 people have recovered.
Data on Russia in the form of a map and a table . We update them every day.
India overtook Russia to become the third largest country in the world in terms of the number of cases of COVID-19. The first place is still with the United States, the second - with Brazil. in the US There are already more than 130,000 deaths . Israel closes bars and fitness clubs again . “The pandemic continues. It's clear as day,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. In South Africa, they were just about to return schoolchildren to schools, when the number of cases began to rise; decided not to return all yet .
News that may affect you directly
In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, there was no place in the hospital even for an employee. 58-year-old doctor of the Uyar hospital Galina Lebedeva contracted covid at work. At first, they did not want to do a CT scan of her, and then put her in intensive care, despite the almost 100% lung damage. As a result, Lebedeva died . The prosecutor's office will check whether everything was legal.
Prices for hotels in Sochi have doubled due to closed borders. In Crimea, the same thing - an increase of 50-100 percent .
What else
Football club "Orenburg" was allowed to play a match, although 10 people there are sick with covid. Rospotrebnadzor found no contraindications for this. The game took place on July 5th. Orenburg lost to Rubin 0:1.
Australia closed its border between states for the first time in 100 years. The border was closed between the most populous states of New South Wales and Victoria. The last time it was closed was during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1919.
Meduza special correspondents Andrei Pertsev, Farida Rustamova and Anastasia Yakoreva found out how Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin acted during the pandemic. At first he was ready for the toughest measures, and then Vladimir Putin decided that the economy was more important, and Sobyanin had to retreat. Andrey Pertsev spoke about this in the Text of the Week podcast .
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