" Real friends are known in trouble . " Stickers with such an inscription in Chinese and Italian were decorated with containers with masks, respirators and other protective equipment that arrived in March and early April from China to Italy. By that time, the PRC authorities announced the decline in an epidemic of coronavirus infection in their country, while in Italian cities from Covid -19, hundreds of people are still dying daily.

On April 24, Armenians recall the victims of the massacres of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, which began on this day 105 years ago. In Yerevan, every year on the day of memory of the victims of those events recognized by genocide in many countries of the world, people lay flowers to the Tsitermanakababer memorial complex, recall the dead ancestors. This year in Armenia, all mass events due to pandemia of coronavirus infection are prohibited.

Scientists in the USA, Europe, Russia, China are experimenting with plasma transfusion. The first data is not bad, but much has yet to be learned.

If the cost of a barrel of Russian oil Urals is $ 15, the liquid reserves of the National Welfare Fund to maintain the Russian economy may only be enough for 2 years. Such an assessment was given by Deutsche Bank economists Petr Sidorov and Christian Vetoshka, RBC reports . The publication got acquainted with the text of the forecast. Experts estimate the volume of FNB funds of $ 120 billion, and the liquid part of the fund at the current rate is about 9 trillion rubles.

The body of a patient who died from coronavirus, delivered in a special refrigerator to the morgue of the Brooklyn Central Hospital The coronavirus epidemic in New York began in early March. And although the United States remains first in the world in the number of new cases of infection and deaths from the virus, and New York is in the first place in the same indicators in the United States, doctors with cautious optimism indicate an epidemic.

In the center of Krasnoyarsk, at least four of several dozen participants in the inconsistent rally against the self -isolation regime was detained near the building of the regional government. At the same time, the police on the square and around it are greater than the demonstrators themselves, the editorial board of Siberia. Realii were reported by local journalists. Participants in the spontaneous action complained that now they could not work and support themselves.

Infectious hospital in the Voronovskoye settlement in New Moscow The construction of an infectious diseases hospital in New Moscow for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 could cost from 16 to 22 billion rubles-and this is without an urgency allowance. This is written by "Vedomosti", who, together with experts, estimated the cost of construction. The source of the publication in the city hall noted that the final cost of the hospital is still calculated.

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In the UK, a group of Oxford University began clinical trials of a vaccine from coronavirus on volunteers. More than a thousand people from different cities of the country will take part in them. Two of them have already made injections. In one of the syringes there was a vaccine from coronavirus, in the other - a vaccine for meningitis. The main goal of scientists is to collect information about the safety of the drug and ensure immunity from the Covid-19.

Alexey Shaposhnikov Chairman of the Moscow City Duma "Judging by the data available today, in Moscow, the daily growth of the infected is stabilized ... I think that the period of the beginning of May will be decisive" Source: RIA Novosti Not a fact, but ... such a dynamics for all of Russia would be comparable to the European Two weeks ago ( judging by April 10), Moscow accounted for 62% of all new cases of coronavirus infection in Russia. Based on the data for April 24, this share is 54%.

The Taliban movement announced the refusal to comply with the ceasefire during Ramadan, rejecting the proposals of the Afghanistan government. Representatives of the Taliban said that in connection with the disagreements about the progress of the peace process, it would be irrational to observe the truce.

The famous British rock band The Rolling Stones has released a new song for the first time in eight years. The composition of Living in a Ghost Town ("Life in the Ghost city") echoes the pandemia of the coronavirus. The Stones Were in the Studio Recording New Material Before The Lockdown & One Song - Living In a Ghost Town - We ThumbHt Would Resonate Through The Times We're Living in. It's out at 5pm bst today and you can hear the track and interview on @beats1 Now!

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the postponement of the official date of the Second World War from September 2 to 3. The document is published on the portal of legal information. On April 14, he was accepted by the State Duma, then he was approved by the Federation Council.

The Central Bank of Russia reduced the key rate by 0.5 percentage points at once - up to 5.5 percent per annum. The last time the cost of borrowing at this level was in 2014, RBC notes . The regulator hopes to Oleg the lending in the conditions of the economic crisis against the background of the pandemic of coronavirus. At the last meeting on March 20, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank left the rate at the level of six percent.

The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk Region Yuri Sterlikov filed a resignation report. This was preceded by a scandal with the publication of audio recordings, from which the plan for detaining police officers of the alleged violators of the self -isolation regime, introduced in connection with the spread of coronavirus.