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Evening Coronavirus
In Moscow, the maximum number of cases in three months. Now, after returning from abroad, you cannot leave home until the test results. There is a second wave in Canada and Ukraine
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In yesterday's newsletter, we wrote that in St. Petersburg, since September 19, more than six thousand sick people have been identified every day. This is a factual error. In fact, the daily increase is more than 200 cases. We apologize.
Pulse
In Russia, the number of new COVID-19 cases detected per day has been growing for the tenth day in a row. Today there were 6,595 of them - the maximum since July 12. In Moscow, for the first time in three months , more than a thousand people fell ill. In total, 1,128,836 people have been infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic. During the day, 6,130 patients with Covid were discharged from hospitals. Over the entire period, 929,829 people have recovered. During the day, 149 people died, for a total of 19,948 people.
Vakha Agayev, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and deputy head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, has died. In St. Petersburg, all public events were allowed , except for rallies, despite the fact that the incidence of the disease is growing in the city , and queues of ambulances are lining up at hospitals. Despite the increase in incidence in the country, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that there are fewer patients in serious condition.
Data for Russia in the form ofmaps and tables . We update them every day.
In the Netherlands, another record for infections per day. 2544 people fell ill. Poland , Slovakia and Indonesia also have records: 1136, 360 and 4634 infected, respectively. In France, restrictions are being tightened : in particular, in Lille, Marseille and Toulouse it will not be possible to gather more than ten people. Bar opening hours will also be shortened and holiday events will be cancelled. European Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakidis said that the pandemic situation in some EU countries is now worse than in March . She did not specify what countries these were.
Israel is planning to tighten quarantine starting Friday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that a second wave has begun in the country. A second wave has also begun in Ukraine, says President Vladimir Zelensky. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes that humanity has failed the test of the pandemic . The New York Metropolitan Operahas canceled its entire 2020-2021 season . Milan and Sweden national team player Zlatan Ibrahimovic became infected.
News that may affect you directly
Muscovites were urged to wear masks and limit contacts . The operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus admitted that the number of infections in the city is growing. “Over the past week, the daily number of hospitalized people has increased by approximately 30%,” the headquarters said in a statement. Masks should primarily be worn in public places and on transport .
Five thousand Moscow companies were asked to switch to remote work . A letter from Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin with such a request has already been received, in particular, by Sberbank, Yandex and Rostec . The official wording is “in connection with the onset of the autumn-winter epidemiological season of ARVI, as well as changes in the dynamics of the incidence of COVID-19.”
They promised to sell the drug against Covid for eight thousand rubles . We are talking about Avifavir . It was developed by the Kromis company, a joint venture of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the ChemRar group of companies. On September 18, another domestic company, Promomed, announced the price of its drug Areplivir - 12,320 rubles. The active ingredient in both drugs is the same - favipiravir. We published a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of this drug. In short, it's dubious.
After returning from abroad, you will need to stay at home until the results of the Covid test . This resolution was signed by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova. This restriction applies only to those Russians who return to the Russian Federation by plane.
What else
Foreigners and stateless people were allowed to stay in Russia until December 15 . People with expiring periods of temporary stay or permanent residence in Russia will also be able to stay. Foreigners whose documents expired after March 14, 2020 will be able to go home .
The owner of a company producing vaccines and tests for Covid has become the richest person in China . In addition to Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise, Zhong Shanshan also owns Nongfu Spring, which produces bottled water. Shanshan listed shares of both companies on the stock exchange this year. As a result, the businessman's assets grew by 51.9 billion dollars and became worth 58.7 billion . Shanshan beat out Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Tencent founder Ma Huateng.
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