What happened on the day of September 26 - briefly

* 29-year-old Maria Galkina , a Volgograd director with SMA,died . In September, the girl came to Moscow to have surgery. The Zhivoy Foundation helped her raise money for this. Director Angela Guseva said on September 24 that the operation was successful, but the girl experienced an “unplanned exacerbation.” Over the course of a year, Maria Galkina collected the documents necessary to gain access to treatment with the drug risdiplam (trade name “Evrysdi”). This is the second registered medicine for the treatment of SMA (the first is Spinraza). Every day the patient needs to take a medicine, the cost of an annual supply of which is 340 thousand dollars. The medicine must be taken for life. Risdiplam is included in the registry of medicines needed for people diagnosed with SMA, so patients can get it free of charge. But this may take a long time.

• Status Quo founder and vocalist Alan Lancaster has died . This happened at his home in Sydney, surrounded by relatives. The musician was 72 years old and suffered from multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease of the nervous system. The most famous songs of the group Status Quo are a version of the composition by a duet from the Netherlands In The Army Now, Down, down, Rockin' All Over the World.

* In Russia, 22,498 new cases of coronavirus infection were registered over the past 24 hours, this is the maximum since the beginning of August. 805 people died. The day before, more than 22 thousand cases of infection were also detected in the country. Over the past 24 hours, 3,275 people fell ill with COVID-19 in Moscow, 2,055 in St. Petersburg, and 1,215 in the Moscow region. The fourth and fifth places in terms of the number of cases are Samara (+574) and Voronezh (+546) regions.

• Human rights activist Valentina Chupikmade contact from a special detention center at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. A lawyer is not allowed to see her. The woman has been in a special detention center at the airport for the second day. Chupik said that she was forced to be in a room with a very bright light, from which she practically stopped seeing - it was turned off for several hours in the morning, but was returned again.

• In Pervouralsk, a district police officer and an assistant driverwere detained , accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. A criminal case has been opened, the men have been charged and face up to 20 years in prison. The driver's assistant had previous convictions for threats to kill, murder, theft and robbery.

• In Iceland, women won a majority of seats in parliament for the first time in Europe. According to the voting results, the ruling coalition of centrists won, and women deputies won 33 of 63 mandates or 52% of the seats. Iceland has become the sixth country in the world in which women dominate parliament. The rest are Rwanda (61%), Cuba (52%), Nicaragua (51%), Mexico (50%) and the UAE (50%).

• Right now, in the parliamentary elections in Germany, with approximately equal results, the Social Democrats and the “Merkel bloc” - conservatives from the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) - are tentatively leading . Parliamentary elections in Germany were supposed to end at 18:00 (19:00 Moscow time), but due to queues at polling stations in Berlin, voting time was extended . Due to parallel elections for the Berlin Senate, there were not enough ballots for all voters. The Social Democrats also preliminarily win a majority of votes in the elections in the constituency of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where Angela Merkel has traditionally been elected as a member of the Bundestag for 30 years. This is the first election in 16 years in which the current chancellor does not take part.