Official data on Covid-19 coronavirus infection may turn out to be low, the study of the University of Gettingen (Germany), published in The Lancet magazine, shows. The percentage of identified cases to the alleged total amount is 50 in South Korea, 15.6 in Germany, 3.5 in Italy, 1.7 in Spain, 1.7 in the United States and 1.2 in the UK. Thus, as of the end of March, tens of millions of people in the world can be infected. Only 6% to 15% of the real number of infected were found.

The Supreme Court of Australia satisfied the appeal of Cardinal Pell, convicted in March last year for violent acts against children, and released him from guard. This was reported in a court decision, published on Tuesday. "The Supreme Court of Australia unanimously satisfied the appeal <...> and ruled that all decisions [in the case] should be canceled, and instead of the conviction made, an acquittal must be issued," the court decision (quote for TASS) should be sentenced.

The US Department of Justice announced the details of the report of the Federal Prosecutor General of the Eastern District of the state of New York on the bribery of employees and members of the Executive Committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) before voting for the world championships in Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022).

Konstantin Sonin “Of course, at the beginning of an unprecedented crisis, trying to guess what will happen in the elections after 7 months, the Americans held the presidential elections during the war (the current president did not win with particular advantage) and during the civil war (the current president won easily), in many states they have not voted by mail, so that the issue of cancellation is not worth it,” writes Facebook Chicago University. “So you can say now?

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia proposed to increase wholesale prices for the population by 3%from July 1, 2020 by 3%. The corresponding draft order was published on the official portal of draft legal acts. "To approve, on July 1, 2020, wholesale prices of Gazprom and its affiliated persons, intended for the subsequent implementation of the population, in accordance with the application to this order," the document quoted by TASS.

The Russian Embassy in the United States asked for compatriots stuck in the country, and announced a lack of passengers even for one exporting flight from the United States. Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said that the interdepartmental working group during the Federal Air Transport Agency is ready to resume export flights, but only a few Russians who want to return to their homeland registered for this on the website of the State Services .

Boris Vishnevsky "The Government of Russia, instead of allocating funds for the purchase of the required number of personal protective equipment (masks, respirators, gloves, protective costumes, and so on) that are not enough in hospitals and polyclinics, and which are not in many pharmacies, decided to monopolize the process of their wholesale and retail trade. And adopted a resolution of April 3 N 431.

The social network Facebook this week will begin collecting data on the movement of users as part of the fight against the spread of coronavirus. This was reported on the company's blog . The publication explains that information about the location of users located in the United States will be transferred to researchers in an anonymized form. This data should help assess the likelihood of the virus spreading in a particular region.

Alexander Golts "Many Muscovites were struck by a festive salute, arranged a few days ago in the capital. According to the organizers, he was supposed to remind the salute of 1945 on the occasion of the liberation of Bratislava. In the conditions of coronavirus pandemia, the Russian government tries to excite in the subordinate population the pride of a feature of 75 years ago. The miserable heads of the current bosses will also fall.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which in April - June 2020, monthly payments will be made in the amount of 5 thousand rubles to persons living in the territory of the Russian Federation and having (having) the right to measures of state support, provided that such a right arose until July 1, 2020. The text of the document was published on the Kremlin’s website. He enters into force, TASS reports.

At the end of March, sales of new passenger cars in Russia amounted to 160.6 thousand units, an increase of 22.7% compared to sales in March last year (130.9 thousand units). This data is provided by the analytical agency Autostat . Sales growth at the end of the quarter amounted to 16.3% - 375.6 thousand cars were sold in Russia over three months.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs identified a certain underground Bank of Russia, which actively used IT technologies in their work and managed to print about 1 billion of false rubles. According to Kommersant , high-quality fakes were made in Nizhny Novgorod and supplied to almost all regions of the Russian Federation using the Hydra Internet resource and its "mirrors", regularly blocked by Roskomnadzor.

Gazprom Dobych Yamburg LLC deprived the nurse who arrived from Ukraine in mid -March, but did not inform the employer about this and did not go to the two -week isolation of coronavirus. "In fact, this act can be qualified as a deception of the employer. With her irresponsible actions, the woman endanated her colleagues and other employees of the company," the editorial of the corporate publication Pulse of Yamburg said.

The Pandemia of Coronavirus forced technological companies to cancel the public events planned for spring and summer 2020 or to transfer them online. Microsoft decided to go further - the corporation plans to hold online all internal and public events until July 2021. About this writes The Verge . According to the publication, such a decision of the Microsoft management means that in September, an online mode will host a conference for developers of Microsoft Ignite.

The number of deaths as a result of infection with new coronavirus in the United States exceeded 10.5 thousand, the total number of infected ones is 362.5 thousand. At the moment, this country takes third place in the world in the number of victims of the disease, second only to Italy (16,523 dead) and Spain (13,169).