Alexander Lukashenko still insists nobody’s going to die from COVID-19. What on earth is happening in Belarus? Tatiana Zinkovich / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Minsk residents walk to church on Palm Sunday. April 12, 2020 As COVID-19 cases escalate in Belarus, medical workers and ordinary people have run out of PPE From April 3 through April 14, the official number of coronavirus cases confirmed in Belarus multiplied by more than nine times, rising from 351 to 3,281.

World Press Photo is the most prestigious annual prize for photojournalists. On April 16, its laureates were announced for 2019. In the nomination “Photo of the Year”, the picture taken in Sudan won. Its author is Yasuysi Tiba from Japan, collaborating with AFP agency Photo of the year The protest in Sudan, whose participants demand to change the government that came to power as a result of a military coup.

Lawyer Alexander Vershinin, representing the interests of former Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov, was detained in Moscow. It is reported by TASS. Vershinin, according to the source of the agency, was detained on suspicion of fraud. According to Baza, Vershinin "allegedly tried to 'resolve' the issue of possible criminal prosecution of crime boss Vasya Voskres" for $300,000.

The Ministry of Finance in 2020 will spend two trillion rubles from the National Wealth Fund (NWF) to support the economy, said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. It is reported by Interfax.

April 16. Muscovites and SARS are sent to quarantine. The Victory Parade has been postponed. Temples refuse to close Good evening, This is the newsletter of the "Medusa" about the coronavirus. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . Pulse There are no regions in Russia where there were no cases of infection with coronavirus infection.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the National Medical Cardiological Research Center to provide free hydroxychloroquine to facilities treating coronavirus patients. Mishustin’s order was published on the Russian government’s website for documents relating to official acts. Hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, has been used to treat COVID-19 internationally. Its effects against the disease have not been confirmed, and it has serious side effects.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the National Medical Research Center for Cardiology to donate Hydroxychloroquine to organizations that treat patients with coronavirus free of charge. The corresponding order is published on the portal of legal acts. Hydroxychloroquine is used for rheumatoid arthritis and malaria, and its effectiveness against coronavirus infection has not been confirmed. The drug has side effects.

Apple New iPhone SE - potentially "folk" phone If you simplify, the new iPhone se looks something like this: design is like an eighth iPhone, the processor is like the eleventh line, and the main camera is like XR. And the price is 10–20 thousand rubles lower than that of the iPhone XR and 11.

Chief pulmonologist of the Ministry of Health Sergey Avdeev about why testing on the Covid-19 was unreliable and how they will now diagnose Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Vida Press On April 9, the operational headquarters for monitoring and monitoring the situation with coronavirus in Moscow stated that most of the pneumonia in the capital is associated with Covid-19.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Political scientist Andrei Kolesnikov - about why one of the best populists in the world Vladimir Putin did not manage to turn the pandemic to his advantage Over the past few weeks, Vladimir Putin has been addressing the Russians three times due to the situation with coronavirus. The last performance was April 15 - then the president announced new measures to support small businesses.

Migrant workers doing construction for an IKEA-owned mall near St. Petersburg are suffering a mass coronavirus outbreak. The illegal hostel where they live has over 100 cases.

All Muscovites with ARVI will receive personalized prescriptions from doctors about the need to comply with isolation at home. This was stated by Deputy Mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakova. According to Rakova, all cases of SARS will be considered as suspected coronavirus, even without testing. “In order to prevent the spread of infection in the city, all these persons will be issued a personal decision of the chief sanitary doctor that they must be in isolation for 14 days.

Alexey Fokin / Sopa Images / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta By April 16, the Nizhny Novgorod region reached fifth in the number of Covid-19 sick in Russia: there are 404 people with a diagnosed coronavirus, while 65 of them were diagnosed over the past day. Four died. More sick only in Moscow, the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and the Komi Republic. At the same time, the Nizhny Novgorod region lags behind more prosperous regions in terms of the number of tests made.

A family from the city of Ust-Kut in the Irkutsk region, who returned from Thailand, was threatened after doctors announced that a seven-year-old child had a coronavirus. Later it turned out that the child is actually healthy, Mediazona writes. Threats and insults against a woman with two children were published on social networks, and their address and other personal data were posted in the city group on Viber, the publication clarifies.

A case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Russia’s Altai Republic, the last region to report the infection’s introduction into its borders. TASS reported that all of Russia’s federal subjects now have confirmed infections of the new coronavirus. An Altai government representative confirmed to TASS that a woman who lives in the republic has contracted the virus. As of the morning of April 16, 27,938 cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Russia nationwide.