The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is on May 16. In the world We give data from Jones Hopkins, which tracks the situation in real time: Infected: 4.67 million people (May 16 - 4.56 million, May 15 - 4.44 million). Recovered: 1.71 million (May 16 - 1.64 million, May 15 - 1.59 million). Died: 312.6 thousand (May 16 - 308 thousand, May 15 - 302 thousand). In the first place in terms of the number of infected, recovered and dead are the United States.

The US presidential administration Donald Trump accused China of deliberately sending tourists around the world to spread infection. “The zero patient appeared in the province of Ujan in November.

Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko asked to prepare proposals that would exclude the supply of sanctioned products to Russia from the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), writes RBC with reference to a copy of Abramchenko's letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Rosselkhoznadzor . The reason for the order was the supply of mushrooms to Russia.

Rospotrebnadzor made recommendations for organizations that will begin to work after lifting restrictions. Separate instructions were given to employees of the film industry, saunas and baths, beauty salons, non -food stores and several more spheres. The full list of recommendations is in the sections of the memo on the site Stopkoronavirus.rf . Employees of all enterprises and organizations should work remotely - if possible - or in shifts.

On May 15, Sberbank registered the Immunotechnology company, writes Pharmaceutical Bulletin. She will produce a vaccine from coronavirus, which is being developed by the NIC of epidemiology and microbiology named after Academician N.F. Gamalei, claims the publication with reference to the source. Sberbank owns 100% of the new company, its authorized capital - 50 million rubles.

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Bloomberg had to change the title twice for an article in which experts doubt the reality of official data on deaths from coronavirus in Russia. The headline of an article published by Bloomberg on May 13 originally read: "Experts want to know why coronavirus hasn't killed more Russians." The article said that even after the number of infections in Russia skyrocketed, the country remained the only country in the top 10 in terms of the number of cases in which the death rate is below 1%.

Over the past day in Russia, 9709 new cases have been registered against 9200 the day before. The total number of cases for all time, according to the operational headquarters, has increased to 281,752 people. The number of recovered people has increased to 67,272. Died per day - 94 people. For the entire period in Russia, according to official data, 2,631 people died from coronavirus.

Direct cash payments to the population allow you to support consumption in the crisis, softening the blow to the economy. Every $ 1 payments to American families increased their consumption by $ 0.29, in the early days the costs increased 1.5–2.5 times, the study showed, which is discussed by Econs.online . This week, direct payments to some categories of citizens were promised in Russia, but there is still ahead to evaluate their effectiveness.

Low COVID-19 mortality rates in Russia became a major political issue this week. When three Western media outlets reported that COVID-19 deaths have been consistently underestimated, it caused a storm of indignation from Russian officials. The Bell examined official documents that showed Russia compiles its statistics very differently to most European countries. There is no evidence of a cover-up when it comes to COVID-19 deaths. What happened?