Human rights activists called on the Russian authorities to take urgent measures to release from temporary detention centers for foreign citizens (TSVSIG) migrants who cannot be deported from the country due to the coronavirus. “This decision must be made urgently without bureaucratic red tape as a measure to protect the life and health of people in TsVSIGs, where it is not possible to organize a full-fledged protection system and effective medical care.

A resident of St. Petersburg, Elena ( name changed - TD's note ) spoke about the problems she encountered when hospitalized at St. George's Hospital. According to TD’s interlocutor, she was not warned that the institution had been repurposed as an infectious diseases hospital. Elena had pneumonia, which developed for several months, and on March 19 she went to the clinic for a referral for hospitalization. There was a separate entrance for everyone who had signs of a cold.

Following Moscow, Russian regions began to switch to self-isolation. In the Kaliningrad region, a complete isolation regime will be introduced on March 31, said the region’s governor, Anton Alikhanov. He noted that as of March 30, 11 cases of coronavirus were detected in the region, two patients have already recovered. Doctors tested 3.7 thousand people for the virus. 1.6 thousand people remain under surveillance.

In Moscow, over the past 24 hours, two patients hospitalized with suspected coronavirus have died in city hospital No. 40 in Kommunarka. The chief physician of the hospital, Denis Protsenko, announced this on Facebook. According to him, one patient died of pneumonia, the second has not yet been confirmed to have coronavirus. A total of 348 people are being treated, 78 of them have confirmed coronavirus. 348 are undergoing treatment.

In the Bryansk region, a criminal case was opened against citizens who infected four people with coronavirus, RIA Novosti reports. The Gorodskoy TV channel published a resolution to initiate a criminal case. On March 13, two relatives returned from Spain to their home in Bryansk. They were supposed to go into quarantine, but didn't. The resolution states that in this way they infected at least four people with the coronavirus.

The All-Russian Union of Patients (VSP) asked Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to ensure home delivery of medications from pharmacies to benefit patients with chronic diseases. According to Kommersant, which has read the VSP letter, the initiative is aimed at reducing the incidence of coronavirus among patients with chronic diseases and people with disabilities, as well as preventing interruptions in medications. VSP proposes to provide home delivery even after the pandemic.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, federal medical centers have temporarily postponed a number of planned bone marrow transplants. The reason was the coronavirus pandemic: it is impossible to deliver foreign donor material due to the closure of borders, and various restrictions are also being introduced within the country. The AdVita Foundation and the Leukemia Foundation reported this to Such Things.

In the rental market - a full captain. Commercial structures cannot pay for renting their premises and with great difficulty agree on delay and discounts. But the rental of apartments is definitely not expensive, and many victims of the Covid-19 even agree on significant discounts or rental holidays The mother of three children, St. Petersburg Julia Burakova, says that after the abolition of a number of business events, her income as a freelancer was greatly reduced.

In Moscow, the Zoo Station animal assistance team organizes free foster care for pets who were left unattended due to their owners’ hospitalization due to coronavirus. Representatives of the fund reported this on their Instagram. The animals will be placed in foster care or in an inpatient veterinary clinic for the duration of the owner’s treatment. If necessary, veterinary services will be provided to pets.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asked regional leaders to introduce quarantine to combat the spread of coronavirus. Interfax reports this. Previously, strict restrictions were introduced in Moscow and the Moscow region. Mishustin recalled that a non-working week has begun in the country, shopping centers and entertainment establishments are closed. The exception is grocery stores and pharmacies. Cafes and restaurants operate in delivery mode and sell takeaway food.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a complete inventory of artificial lung ventilation devices, RIA Novosti reports. The president also believes that it is necessary to provide additional training to doctors to work with the devices. The Moscow Times reported that wealthy Russians are buying up ventilators in case they become ill with coronavirus. The unnamed interlocutor said that his family purchased one device and is trying to get two more - the waiting list is eight months.

The Russian government has approved amendments to the Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation, which tighten penalties for quarantine violators, RIA Novosti reports . For citizens, the fine for failure to comply with quarantine measures, if another person became infected and died because of this, will range from 150 to 300 thousand rubles. For officials - from 300 to 500 thousand.

Russian NGOs, against the backdrop of a sharp drop in the number of donations due to the coronavirus, launched a flash mob on social networks #if there are no funds. Dozens of foundations have already taken part in the flash mob, including Humanitarian Action, Our Children, Live Now, Cancer Prevention Foundation, and Protect Life.

State Duma deputy Oksana Pushkina said that with the introduction of quarantine, the co-authors of the law on the prevention of domestic violence began to receive more complaints about bullying of older people, RIA Novosti reports. According to Pushkina, in any country during long weekends there is an increase in the number of victims of domestic violence. “But the situation in Russia is complicated by the lack of an appropriate law on the prevention of domestic violence.

The Public Chamber (PC) of the Russian Federation has opened a hotline “VmesteNKO”, to which non-profit organizations can report problems due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We want to understand what exactly NPOs are doing in this difficult situation, how the volume of their work is increasing and changing, what problems they face in this work,” explained Elena Topoleva, Chairman of the RF OP Commission for the Development of the Non-Profit Sector and Support of Socially Oriented NPOs. Soldunova.