Moscow City Duma Moskhordum deputy Mikhail Timonov (“Fair Russia”) and the head of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party in the Moscow Parliament Sergey Timokhov fell ill with the coronavirus infection Covid-19, the publication “Kholod” reports . Mikhail Timonov said in Telegram that his test on Koronavirus, held on March 31 in the Medsi clinic, gave a positive result. Moreover, one of the first tests was negative.

Russia’s unusual economic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic has centered on President Vladimir Putin’s order for all employers to grant non-essential workers paid leave at least until the end of this month. However, a new report from the Center for Strategic Research indicates that almost 30 percent of Russian companies mandated that at least some of their workers take unpaid leave instead. RBC reported on the new survey.

Sergey Vedyashkin / “Moskva” News Agency On March 27, a day before Russia’s coronavirus shutdown took effect, the Moscow Mayor’s office signed a massive contract reportedly worth 3.2 billion rubles ($42.4 million) to purchase new concrete curbsides for the city. Previously, the city’s largest contract for curbstone supplies was with “Bashkirsky Kamen” (Bashir Stone) Ltd., signed in August 2019.

Yury Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Elderly people are particularly susceptible to complications, including deadly complications, from the novel coronavirus continuing its spread across the world. A Meduza investigation revealed that in Russia, the areas with the highest proportions of elderly residents are located in the Central Federal District. In the Tula, Tambov, Ryazan, and Tver regions in particular, COVID-19 poses an unusually high threat.

Almost 30% of Russian companies have forced workers to take unpaid leave, according to a study by the Center for Strategic Research , the results of which are cited by RBC. The center's survey showed that 49% of companies transferred employees to part-time work with a reduction in salary. More than 20% of companies reduced salaries, while leaving the same number of working hours. About the same number of companies transferred employees to remote work and reduced salaries.

The head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, former Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova believes that the peak of the coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Russia will be in 10-14 days. “If we increase the volume of testing, then, according to the best forecasting groups, consisting of mathematicians and biologists, we are about 10-14 days before reaching a plateau with this infection,” Skvortsova said in an interview with Russia 24 TV channel.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Some countries hold back coronavirus, while others are not. The point is about money, technology, quarantine mode? Why is everything bad in the USA, but in Sweden - on the contrary? The Covid-19 epidemic began in China at the end of 2019. Now coronavirus has spread in most countries of the world , including Russia. The largest foci of infection in Europe are Spain and Italy. In the world - the USA.

The Ministry of Communications has included the site "Scientific Articles.Ru", where dissertations are sold, in the list of socially significant sites with free access. The co-founder of "Dissernet" Andrey Zayakin drew attention to this. The website "Scientific Articles.Ru" has a page where you can order a dissertation. "We work on the principle of an exchange, so you choose the author, cost and deadline yourself," the website says.

April 7th. In Russia, for the first time, more than 1,000 new cases per day. Germany distributes 5,000 euros each. Norway reopens schools and kindergartens Good evening, This is Meduza's mailing list about the coronavirus. It comes out on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here .

Everyone is sitting at home, so the water in the canals of Venice has become so clear that swans and dolphins have returned there. “Nature heals. The virus is us,” they tweeted. And photos and videos with splashing dolphins and swans were attached to the materials. “An unexpected side effect of the pandemic is that for the first time in a long time, the water in the canals of Venice has cleared.

In the city of Pitkyaranta in Karelia, schoolchildren from low-income families received food packages for two weeks, which included two sausages, five or six potatoes, margarine, sugar and flour. Photos of dry rations were published in the public “Atypical Pitkyaranta” on VKontakte. The head of the administration of the Pitkyaranta district, Dmitry Troshin , said on VKontakte that the director of the school catering plant, responsible for completing food packages, had been fired.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on additional financial support for families who are entitled to maternity capital. In April, May and June 2020, such families will receive 5,000 rubles for each child under the age of three. Putin announced plans to introduce additional payments to families with children amid restrictive measures against the coronavirus during his March 25 address.

The number of active cases of coronavirus infection has exceeded one million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of the evening of April 7, there were 1,009,772 people worldwide with COVID-19. Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than one million 381 thousand people have been diagnosed with the disease. Of these, almost 293 thousand recovered, more than 78 thousand died.

Sergey Malgavko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Several largest networks of medical laboratories began to make tests for coronavirus infection in the Russian regions - and then abruptly stopped, referring to the emergence of recommendations from Rospotrebnadzor. In parallel, the state department launched its own paid testing on the Covid-19, promising to organize it in all regions of the country.

A group of Russian-language musical acts whose spring concerts were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic has collaborated on a group album titled Without Leaving Home . The Institute of Musical Initiatives offered grants to several Russian and some Belarusian indie music bands, asking them to produce tracks for the new album by using their own homes as impromptu studios. Without Leaving Home features hit acts like Khadn Dadn, Inturist, Ilyamazo, The Wooden Whales, and many others.