Michal Svitok / Pool / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta President of Slovakia Zuzan Chaputova (on the right) took the oath of the new cabinet of ministers led by the leader of the right -handed party “Ordinary People” Igor Matovich (left). All participants in the ceremony put on disposable masks and gloves (while the WHO, due to a shortage of masks, recommends wearing them only infected people). On March 12, Slovakia closed the border for entry and exit.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Tourists remaining outside Russia due to the abolition of their flights in connection with pandemia complain about the high price of return tickets. On Friday, the FAS demanded that Aeroflot eliminate violations in pricing and ensure the availability of flights. In Aeroflot, claims about expensive tickets were rejected, but prices returned to the usual level, and the airline began to export Russians from other countries with “humanitarian flights”.

Fitness clubs, swimming pools and water parks in Moscow are required to stop admitting visitors from March 21 due to the spread of coronavirus infection, Rospotrebnadzor reports. The same goes for other sports venues where a lot of people come. Restrictions are in place until further notice. If organizations do not comply with the requirement of Rospotrebnadzor, they will be brought to administrative responsibility.

NASA has selected priority projects that should not be affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. This was reported on the website of the aerospace agency. In the context of the epidemic, NASA will consider the most important work necessary for US national security, support and protection of critical infrastructure.

53 new cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Russia in a day, according to a report from the operational headquarters received by Meduza. The total number of cases reached 306 people. Most cases per day in the Moscow region (17), followed by Moscow (6), Tatarstan (5), Nizhny Novgorod region (4), Sverdlovsk region (3). Four people have recovered in the last 24 hours: three in Moscow and one in the Moscow region.

On March 21, Russian health officials announced that they recorded 53 new cases of coronavirus in the previous 24 hours, bringing the country's number of confirmed COVID-19 infections to 306. The cases are spread across 18 different regions of the country, though almost half of new cases (24) were reported in Moscow and the Moscow region. Russian officials say 16 patients have already fully recovered from the illness. A day earlier, on March 20, Russia recorded 54 new cases of coronavirus.

Well, Eurovision was canceled due to coronavirus-and something urgently needs to be done! We offer to conduct an alternative competition and identify the winner by ourselves. We selected five nominees considered the favorites of this year. You need to see the clip of each participant and give a voice for one. Attention: for us, Little Big already won all in any case - and therefore we did not include them in the vote. Otherwise, the result would be easy to predict!

Kirill Zykov / Moscow Agency, Moscow authorities on March 12 announced that a hospital for hospitalized because of the coronavirus would be built on the southern border of New Moscow. The hospital, which is built near the village of Golokhvastovo, will take 43 hectares and will be able to take 500-600 patients. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin promises that construction will be completed by mid -April. On March 21, journalists noticed campaign posters calling for builders to speed up work.

Antonio Masiello / Getty images Spanish staircase in Rome Since March 9, all Italy is on quarantine. The boundaries of the country are closed for entry and exit, leaving the house is allowed in compliance with strict security rules. This is what the main tourist objects of the country and the streets of the largest cities look like in the last week. On Friday, March 20, Italy recorded a record number of those who died from coronavirus infection in one day - 627 people.

The largest (according to Nevafilm Research) cinema chain in Russia - the combined Kino Okko, Cinema Park and Formula Kino - suspended the work of 22 out of 77 cinemas, Vedomosti writes. We are talking about cinemas in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Voronezh, Naberezhnye Chelny, halls in the Mega Khimki, Mega Belaya Dacha and Mega Teply Stan shopping centers. "Premier Hall" temporarily closed 125 cinemas out of 494, "Kinomax" has not yet announced the suspension of the halls.

Instructions "Medusa" With the spread of coronavirus, many Russian companies and enterprises transfer employees to remote work from the house. But not all. Some still have to go to work, at risk of themselves and, possibly, others. What to do if you want to go into self -isolation mode, and your employer objects? Medusa asked the deputy director of the Center for Social and Labor Rights to Yulia Ostrovskaya to draw up instructions on how to act in such cases. Study the law.

To finally distract from anxious news 🧘‍♀️ In news feeds a continuous crisis and coronavirus, and many of us really surrender the nerves. Everyone is looking for different ways to get distracted. You can watch a movie, read a book or engage in physical education. And also - listen to one of our podcasts. Yes, in them we also often talk about what is happening in the world right now. But in this material we have collected only the kindest episodes - no pandemic, falling ruble and oil crisis.

Residents of Russian regions began to be held accountable for actions one way or another related to the spread of coronavirus. So, in the Stavropol Territory, cases were opened against those who violated the regime of self-isolation. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the deputy chairman of the regional government Yuri Skvortsov.

Answers Andrey Lankov: Carnegie.ru KIM Won-Jin / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Masks on the streets of Pyongyan, February 26, 2020 Perhaps you think that by North Korea with its total poverty, information isolation and political repression, the new coronavirus infection will hit especially strongly - and no one in the world will even know about it. However, Koreudeda Andrei Lankov in an article for the Moscow Center of Carnegie refutes this stereotype.

In Dmitrov, near Moscow, a warehouse of an aluminum plant caught fire, the fire area reached 60,000 square meters (80% of the building). This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The roof collapsed due to the fire, reports RIA Novosti. There were no casualties, according to preliminary data.