Russian biathlete Anastasia Khaliullina suggested that she was infected with coronavirus during a long wait for a flight at Moscow airport. An athlete who returned from competitions in Europe tested positive for Covid-19. On March 27, Khaliullina and her mother Ekaterina were taken to a hospital in Saratov with suspected coronavirus. The first test showed a "doubtful" result, but the second was positive. “As everyone knows, we were at competitions in Austria when all this was just beginning.

Leonid Volkov “There are two factors that will almost inevitably seriously affect the severity of the epidemic of the new coronavirus in Russia - for the worse, in comparison with many European countries,” writes Alexander Navalny’s ally on his Facebook page. " Factor 1. The quality of testing. I read many dozens of telling tales of various people who have passed or now go through coronavirus in Russia. In Moscow and in the regions, in hospitals and at home, it is easy and difficult.

Russian subscribers who are self-isolation due to the coronavirus epidemic began to call each other more. This was written by the newspaper "Vedomosti" with reference to representatives of cellular operators. So, according to Anna Aibasheva from Vimpelkom (Beeline brand), a weekly voice traffic growth is on average 12-20% depending on the region. In addition, the number of subscribers' calls to the "favorite" numbers doubled and the duration of the calls has increased.

Senator from the state of Vermont and candidate of US presidential from the Democratic Party Bernie Sanders suspenses participation in the presidential race, CNBC reports. Sanders declared this decision to his team on Wednesday morning. The 78-year-old Senator made such a decision against the backdrop of the growing success of another Democrats candidate Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Baiden defeated Sanders on the primaries in Illinois, Arizona and Florida.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the day before announced that the United States in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic conducted “one of the most outstanding diplomatic missions in American history” - 45 thousand Americans who were abroad were returned to their homeland when states closed their borders due to the spread of the virus.

The first channel announced the new appeal of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the air. “In the near future we expect the appeal of the President of Russia,” the line on the screen reads.

Experts of the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCU) came to the conclusion that for the use of chemical weapons in 2017 during the conflict in Syria are government troops. This is stated in the report published on Wednesday.

The self -isolation index in Russia has significantly decreased after the first week of restrictions, follows from Yandex data. The self -isolation index (from 0 to 5), which the service counts on the activity of Russians before the epidemic, was released in Russia at a maximum of Sunday April 5 (4.1). But on Monday and Tuesday, it decreased to 3.2 and 3.1, respectively. This is about the same as on the same days of the first week of self -isolation (2.9 and 3.1).

The goalkeeper of the Moscow “Lokomotiv” Anton Kochenkov said that the players of the capital's football club did not reach an agreement with the guide to reduce salaries due to the pandemic of coronavirus. According to the media, the leadership of the railway workers invited the team to reduce salaries by 40%, which allegedly caused the conflict within the club. “I’m quarantine like everyone else, I’m twisting a bicycle, I try to maintain a form. Reducing salaries?

The cub of cat Lemura, whom his mother abandoned, came out employees of the Krasnodar safari park. They called Lemura Covid - in honor of the disease caused by a new -type coronavirus, during which he was born, the director of the zoo Mario Aburmeileh told TASS. “We had a small lemur. Unfortunately, his mother refused him, but we fed him ourselves. We called him Covid, in honor of the time he was born in,” ABBRMAILEH said.

The Presidium of the General Council of United Russia excluded from the party the deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, ex-governor of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov , who deleted the airport employees in Izhevsk during the verification of documents. This was reported to Kommersant in the party’s press service. The incident occurred on Sunday evening after the airport employees at the entrance to the air terminal building asked Ovsyannikov a travel document, which was not required before.

The structure of Kazakh businessman Zhomart Kamenov, Medstroyinvest, filed a claim with the arbitration court to recover 16 billion rubles from the Moscow government and terminate the previously concluded investment contract for the construction of buildings for children's hospitals. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this. The mentioned investment contract was concluded back in 2006.

The Moscow City Hall in the midst of the Pandemia of Coronavirus managed to conclude contracts or declare tenders for the replacement of tiles , asphalt, lawns, the purchase of concrete borders for at least 20.5 billion rubles, but is not going to dwell on it. Medusa journalist Ivan Kolunov discovered in the schedule of procurement of the GBU "Roads" for the current year five tenders for the purchase of granite borders for 16.057 billion rubles.

The founder and head of the Twitter microblogs service, Jack Dorsie announced that he would sacrifice $ 1 billion to fight the Pandemia of Coronavirus. This amount, according to Dorsy, is approximately 28% of its condition. According to The Verge , Dorsie will sacrifice this amount to his own Start Small LLC fund. The source of funds will be the Square electronic payments, in which Jack Dorsy also holds the general director, belonging to Dorsy.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the distribution of false information about the coronavirus on a blogger, which posted on Twitter a satirical video that the virus was created in the state scientific center "Vector" spread out as a result of the explosion that occurred there in September, and the smoke from forest fires in Siberia took it towards China.