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Evening Coronavirus
Every 15 seconds a covid patient dies in the world. Which countries you can fly to and what awaits you there. Volunteers 'feel good' after Russian vaccine
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Pulse
During the day, 5204 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia. Most infected in Moscow (687 people), Sverdlovsk region (181) and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (169). Coronavirus was found in the head of Kalmykia Batu Khasikov . In total, 866,627 people have fallen ill since the beginning of the pandemic in the country. During the day, 7555 patients with covid were discharged from hospitals. For all the time, 669,026 people have recovered. During the day, 139 people died, a total of 14,490 people.
Data on Russia in the form of a map and a table . We update them every day.
have already died in the world More than 700 thousand people . Reuters estimates that one person dies from the coronavirus every 15 seconds . In the Czech Republic, 290 new cases of covid were registered per day. This is a record. In total, 17,286 people fell ill in the country. in a day A record for new cases in Ukraine too: 1,271 people fell ill , for all time - 75,490. US Health Secretary Alex Azar will visit Taiwan to discuss the fight against the pandemic. For Taiwan, this is the first visit by an American official of this stature since 1979. In Sri Lanka, despite the pandemic , parliamentary elections began , and in Belarus, early voting in the presidential elections .
News that may affect you directly
We have made an updated table with countries where you can fly from Russia . We tell you if there are direct flights, what restrictions await upon arrival and whether a visa is needed. Save the link - it will come in handy.
Express testing for coronavirus will be launched at Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports . Testing should start within a week . Test systems produced by the Russian-Japanese company EMG will be used for it. Passengers at Sheremetyevo have already been tested since July.
You can again come to Kaliningrad by train . Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin lifted restrictions that had been in place since April. They also allowed visa-free entry into Russia for foreigners for short-term business trips.
What else
Almost two and a half thousand people left Moscow on the first day of the resumption of international flights . Almost half of the passengers were transported by Aeroflot: 959 people flew from Sheremetyevo to Istanbul and 450 to London . 834 people flew from Vnukovo, 219 from Domodedovo.
Pobeda sent a third of its pilots on unpaid leave until 2021 . Those who refuse to go on such vacations voluntarily are threatened with termination of the contract . If the contract is terminated with a pilot who has worked for less than five years, then he must return the money for retraining - this is about one and a half million rubles. Due to the pandemic, the low-cost carrier completely suspended flights in April and May 2020.
Volunteers who were given the vaccine from the Vector center "feel good" . Rospotrebnadzor reported that there were no complications after the introduction of the EpiVacCorona coronavirus vaccine. While three people have been vaccinated, one more person should be vaccinated today.
Airline Virgin Atlantic has filed for bankruptcy in the United States . The company will not cease operations and will not liquidate the legal entity, but will begin the process of restructuring . Virgin Atlantic says it has tentatively agreed with its shareholders to raise £600m. If for some reason the restructuring plan fails, the company will run out of money in September.
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 Karolina wrote to us:
It has been a month since we arrived from Paris and we are in Poland, in the village of Kraszczyce, not far from the town of Przemysl, the unofficial Catholic capital of Poland, 12 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The weather is fine, 25-27 degrees. A neighbor every three days brings us fresh eggs, vegetables from her garden and freshly baked pies and completely refuses to take money for this.
Yesterday my brother from Vienna and my grandfather joined us, we had not seen each other for eight months and were extremely happy to finally hug! During the day, my brother managed to scatter his books, socks, towels and all kinds of devices around the house, so my euphoria did not last long. We hoped that my mother and the rest of the family would come to us from Moscow via Minsk, but alas, not yet. Pah-pah, everyone is cheerful and healthy, albeit at a distance of more than one and a half meters from each other. We hope you are doing well, wherever you are.
And we hope!
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