Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the state will provide a deferment on rental payments for the use of not only state-owned, but also commercial property. He stated this live on Rossiya 24 .

Due to the quarantine, clothing stores of both major brands and charitable organizations are closed. However, this does not eliminate the need to pay rent for premises and salaries for employees. The founder of the Second Wind Foundation, Daria Alekseeva, spoke about how the pandemic affected the organization’s work. We're wasting money on maintaining a system that doesn't work.

The authorities of the Republic of Chechnya decided to introduce a curfew in connection with the coronavirus epidemic. The head of the region, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced this in his Telegram channel. The curfew is set from 20:00 to 08:00 and will take effect on April 3. After eight in the evening, the movement of citizens on foot and in cars is prohibited. Some emergency services and organizations will be given the right to travel at night.

Russian online stores have complained that regulatory authorities are hindering their work during the coronavirus period: they are massively detaining couriers, preventing suppliers from reaching distribution centers, and forcing order pick-up points to close. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to data from the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT), which unites Wildberries, Citylink, M.Video, Ozon and others.

Russia has suspended international flights to bring Russians home since April 4, RIA Novosti reports. About 35 thousand Russian tourists are abroad, most of our compatriots are in Indonesia and Thailand. The operational headquarters said that flights were stopped to “limit a new wave of imported cases of coronavirus infection.” Over the past 24 hours, 601 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Russia in 32 regions, and four people have died.

The Federation of Car Owners of Russia (FAR) appealed to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin with a proposal to automatically extend the validity of driver’s licenses for six months. The FAR told Takim Dela that they are contacted every day about the impossibility of replacing IDs. When exchanging a driver's license that has been issued for 10 years, a medical certificate is required. Due to the coronavirus, authorities are calling on citizens to self-isolate and limit social contacts.

More than 20 Moscow residents have filed a class action lawsuit against Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in the Moscow City Court - they demand that his decree introducing a self-isolation regime be declared illegal. One of the plaintiffs, municipal deputy Denis Shenderovich, told MBH Media about this.

More than 11.2 thousand homeless people died in 2018 in 15 Russian cities with a population of over a million, reports the homeless charity Nochlezhka. NPOs do not yet have data for 2019. In 2018, 2,674 homeless people died on the streets of Moscow, 1,134 in Novosibirsk, 947 in St. Petersburg, 927 in Samara, and 855 in Omsk. “These figures are needed to better understand the scale of the problem and the measures that need to be taken.

In Ufa, a court fined a 33-year-old man 15 thousand rubles who went out to repark his car during the self-isolation regime. This is the first fine in Russia provided for by the new version of the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO). Kommersant reports this. The judge admitted that, in violation of the decree of the head of Bashkortostan, Ruslan Sharifullin was “in a public place without a certificate from the employer,” and also drove a car while intoxicated.

Doctors from subordinate Moscow medical institutions were asked to take part in a study of a drug that is used for rheumatoid arthritis and malaria. The purpose of the study is to find out whether the medicine helps against coronavirus, reports the BBC Russian Service . The drug is called Hydroxychloroquine and its effectiveness against COVID-19 has not been confirmed. Doctors are invited to take part in the experiment on the website doc-covid.ru .

In the conditions of quarantine by coronavirus, it becomes especially difficult for people with heavy ailments - those who are forced to receive drugs from the state every month or more often to restrain the underlying disease. TD talked with a girl awaiting a transplant of lungs, a medical lawyer and patients from different regions to find out how they get drugs vital for them according to recipes.

Two children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) received gene therapy with the American drug Zolgensma for the first time in Russia. This was announced by the head of the SMA Families Foundation, Olga Germanenko. She added that the third child will receive therapy - he is now being prepared. All three patients receive treatment not at the expense of the state.

Over the past 24 hours, 601 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Russia in 32 regions, and four people have died. The operational headquarters reports this. For the first time, diagnoses were made in Ingushetia and the Jewish Autonomous Region. 448 new cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Moscow. Almost half of the new cases in the capital are people under 45 years of age.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Russian Ecological Operator (REO) have asked the government to allocate 30 billion rubles to subsidize regional waste management operators who are on the verge of bankruptcy due to the coronavirus. The lack of support for companies, according to the ministry, will lead to a garbage collapse.

Deputy Director of the Fragile People charity foundation Elena Gracheva told Such Things how the crisis and the coronavirus pandemic affected the organization’s work. Fragile People is a foundation that helps people with osteogenesis imperfecta. With this disease, a person experiences frequent fractures due to minor trauma.