We talked to three of the 200 Russians who have stayed in Wuhan rather than escaping the coronavirus Cai Yang / Xinhua / Sipa / Scanpix / LETA Wuhan. January 31, 2020 On February 5, two Russian Defense Ministry airplanes took 144 Russian citizens out of the Chinese city of Wuhan, where an outbreak of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to spread. The evacuees will spend two weeks quarantined in a Tyumen sanitorium.

A hospital in Wuhan announced the death of a doctor, Li Wenliang, who was one of the first to warn about the danger of a new virus, from a coronavirus infection. According to the hospital, the death of a 34-year-old doctor occurred on February 7 at 2:58 local time (21:58 Moscow time on February 6). The Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times reported Li's death on the evening of February 6.

In Grozny, an attack was carried out on Novaya Gazeta columnist Elena Milashina and lawyer Marina Dubrovina, the publication reports. The incident occurred at the entrance to the Continent Hotel on the evening of February 6. The attackers were both men and women. Novaya Gazeta reports that Dubrovina was beaten, and that it was mostly women who beat her. The attackers filmed their actions on camera.

The number of new cases of coronavirus infection in China following the results of February 5, for the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic, decreased compared to the previous day. This was announced on February 6 by WHO Executive Director for Emergency Programs Mike Ryan. At the same time, Ryan noted that it is too early to say that the epidemic has passed its peak. In Hubei province, where the city of Wuhan is located, the local increase in the number of cases continued.

In Moscow, a group of doctors from an oncology dispensary was detained on suspicion of stealing medicines intended for cancer patients. This is reported by the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to the department, the head of the department of the dispensary and two doctors falsified reporting documentation and stole drugs from clinics that turned out to be unaccounted for in this way.

Boeing engineers have identified a new software bug in the 737 MAX aircraft. The newly discovered defect is associated with the operation of a sensor that warns of a malfunction in the balancing system. The company emphasized that the problem will be fixed before the new 737 MAX is put into operation. At the same time, Boeing noted that the newly discovered malfunction will not affect the deadlines for the delivery of the airliners, which are now scheduled for mid-2020.

Dmitry Astakhov / Press Service of the Government of the Russian Federation / TASS Former Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeev, who oversaw Dmitry Medvedev agriculture in the government, will become the vice-speaker of the State Duma. The Medusa correspondent told about this two people close to him, the interlocutor confirmed the information in the lower house of the parliament.

Airplanes are unfolded because of it, they are scared by rapists, they are associated with Mexican beer Masks became a trend among popular Instagram bloggers They are photographed in medical masks and respirators and laid out under the hashtag #coronavirus. Some in the signatures to the pictures and videos publish instructions on how to protect themselves from the virus. Masks are made from everything in a row Protective masks do not save from infection with coronavirus.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay 150 thousand rubles to the former defendant in the “Moscow case” Alexey Minyailo for illegal criminal prosecution. The case of Alexey Minyailo Alexey Minyailo was detained on August 1, he was accused of participating in mass riots at a rally in Moscow on July 27. The activist himself stated that he did not participate in the action at all, as he was detained before it.

Russian officials in Simferopol announced a water shortage and prayed for rain, but now they’re saying everything’s fine Sergey Malgavko / TASS / Vida Press The Partizanskoe Reservoir, built for Simferopol’s water supply On February 5, officials in Simferopol, Crimea, announced plans to limit the supply of hot and cold water to local private residences and apartment buildings because of the city reservoirs' low reserves.

The Hummingbird group is raising funds for the release of new albums. The campaign plans to raise 750 thousand rubles. The collected funds will be used for recording, studio, mixing, mastering and related expenses, Inna Volkova from Hummingbird wrote on Facebook. “We dream of recording two albums: an album of new songs and an album of versions of previously recorded songs that we want,” Volkova said. "But if it's not enough for two albums, it will be an album of new songs," she added.

Vladimir Putin has appointed Dmitry Makhonin as acting governor of the Perm Territory, according to the Kremlin website. Previously, Makhonin served as head of the department for regulating the fuel and energy complex in the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, writes . Kommersant The previous governor of the region resigned on January 21: Maxim Reshetnikov headed the Ministry of Economic Development, he has been in charge of the Perm Territory since 2017.

Ruslan Edelgeriev, Vladimir Putin’s special representative for climate issues, acknowledged in a February 6 press conference that the effects of a rapidly changing climate are palpable in Russia. “In Yakutia, there are areas where the surface temperature has increased by five to eight degrees,” Edelgeriev said, according to Greenpeace Russia.

Hussain Warraich / Shutterstock.com Finnish palm tree Scientists have grown six finished palm trees from the seeds found during archaeological excavations in the Jewish desert. The radiocarbon analysis showed that the age of some of them is more than two thousand years - although this is not an absolute record, the seeds still turned out to be one of the most ancients, who had retained germination to the present.

Updated . A few hours after the publication of Li's death, the Global Times reported , citing hospital staff, that he was alive and in intensive care, the same information appeared on the hospital's Weibo page. The tweet announcing the death has been deleted.