26 Mar, 2020 07:57 All restaurants, cafes, and shops, except food stores, will be closed in the Russia capital from March 28 to April 5. The mayor also advised Muscovites to refrain from visiting places of worship amid the Covid-19 epidemic. Source
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The Russian government is banning all regular and charter international flights starting Friday, except those bringing citizens home, as part of tough measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Russia’s aerial borders will go on lockdown starting Friday, so far without a resumption date. 652 Covid-19 cases have been registered in Russia so far, with more than a half of the infected in Moscow. DETAILS TO FOLLOW […]
Two elderly coronavirus patients have died in Moscow, according to health authorities. Both of them suffered from pneumonia and had pre-existing medical conditions. Two coronavirus patients – aged 88 and 73 – died in Moscow, the city’s health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday. Both of the patients were said to have pre-existing health issues and it was not immediately clear from the statement whether […]
Videoclub 16:48 GMT 25.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107870/28/1078702848_128:0:1452:745_1200x675_80_0_0_8c7b6fbc999db62e931dc337c851ec4b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202003251078706776-covid-19-hospital-under-construction-outside-moscow-as-seen-from-above/ With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating, governments have been taking emergency measures to stop the spread of the deadly infection. According to the World Health Organisation, the number of confirmed cases globally has exceeded 375,000, with over 16,000 deaths. A special hospital for patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis […]
There are a number of theories for why Russia appears to have gotten off relatively lightly from the coronavirus pandemic, so far. Some cite early border closures, others pure luck and a small fringe allege there’s a cover-up. Meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said the country’s official data may not be wholly accurate. He noted that many cases had not been […]
Путин в Коммунарке: Костюм и респиратор для президента pic.twitter.com/QkrBA3UYwp — Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) March 24, 2020 DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
Russia’s top diplomat in the US has demanded the Human Rights Watch chief stops spreading misinformation about Russia’s readiness to fight Covid-19, after he touted an article claiming it’s letting the wealthy buy up ventilators. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s envoy in Washington, has penned a scathing rebuke to the group’s executive director, Kenneth Roth, who tweeted that the Kremlin was “doing nothing to stop wealthy Russians from […]
Lord Kitchener, Uncle Sam… and now Sergei Sobyanin? A series of motivational billboards aimed at workers constructing Moscow’s new coronavirus hospital have gone viral on Russian social media. The most-shared poster, which depicts the Moscow mayor, reminds construction workers that time is of the essence to defeat coronavirus. Another billboard shows a bulldozer symbolically crushing Covid-19. Builders! Every minute counts! The remaining posters depict builders, as […]
If you can’t force them, perhaps the only solution is to bribe them? Moscow’s mayor has ordered all over 65s to stay at home for almost three weeks and is offering a cash incentive to encourage them to comply. The scheme will run from March 26 until April 14, and recipients will be paid a 4,000-ruble ($50) sweetener as motivation. If that seems low, bear in […]
Russia’s approach to the Covid-19 pandemic has been quite effective, partially because it started taking preventive measures long before the World Health Organization labeled it as such, the WHO’s chief in Russia has told RT. “Russia started with the measures very early, before the famous ‘pandemic’ word was spelled out by the [WHO] Director General” Tedros Ghebreyesus on March 11, said Dr Melita Vujnovic, who heads […]
Russian personnel swiftly airlifted trucks full of medical equipment to Italy, the nation with the highest death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic. A video by Russia’s Defense Ministry shows containers with equipment being offloaded onto Kamaz military semi-trucks after an Il-76 transport plane landed in Italy’s Pratica di Mare airbase, 30km (18.6 miles) from Rome. Personnel in white hazmat suits helped to prepare the cargo hatch […]
Despite the coronavirus outbreak, the Moscow government will not shut its most used public transit system, the metro, said the mayor while dismissing the rumors to the contrary as “nonsense and stupidity.” “The metro will work in any situation,” Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin told the news channel Rossiya 1. He was responding to online rumors that a total shutdown of the system was imminent to curb […]
Russia’s consumer watchdog has expanded the restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus in Moscow, with gyms, swimming pools and water parks now also being shut down. Those establishments are to prevent access to clients starting Saturday, Rospotrebnadzor announced. The restrictions will remain in place “until a special order.” Over 50 new coronavirus cases were registered in Russia in the last 24 hours, bringing […]
While ordinary folk have been told to wash their hands, self-isolate, and keep social distance to fight infection, members of a Moscow religious order have opted for their own solution – nightly processions on the streets. As first reported by news service Interfax, monks from Moscow’s Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery have opted to circle their abode to battle coronavirus. The first procession, which occurred yesterday after the evening […]
The Foreign Ministry in Moscow announced on Monday that it will provide assistance to Iran which is suffering under US sanctions and the spread of the Covid-19 virus. “In light of reports on the increasing spread of the epidemic [sic] caused by the coronavirus, we cannot help but notice the unjust and inadequate situation which the Islamic Republic of Iran has been experiencing,” explained the ministry. […]
It appears some Russians really don’t like the idea of being quarantined over Covid-19. After a well-publicized hospital breakout in Saint Petersburg last month, a Moscow patient decided to play copycat. Apparently unconcerned about infecting others around the capital, a woman suspected of having coronavirus escaped from a medical facility, according to Denis Protsenko, the head physician at Moscow’s Kommunarka Hospital. “I have to deal with […]
You have to be quite cheeky to gather thousands of people together amid coronavirus fears. But Till Lindemann apparently had an ace up his sleeve – a giant iridescent bubble to protect him during his Moscow concert. The Rammstein star is currently on tour in Russia, together with Swedish multi-instrumentalist Peter Tagtgren. On Sunday the two performed at the VTB Arena in Moscow and had an […]
Russia’s capital has so far avoided a coronavirus death, but its more traditional foe, the weather, caused havoc on Friday with strong winds up to 25m/s, killing at least one man and hospitalizing others. Speaking to news agency RIA Novosti, a spokesman for the emergency services said that a driver died in the east of Moscow after wind caused a tree to fall on the car. […]
Russia 23:05 GMT 12.03.2020(updated 23:13 GMT 12.03.2020) Get short URL According to the Russian Emergency Services, a restaurant located on the territory of the ‘Moscow Region Golf Club’ has caught fire and the blaze has spread to some 1,000 square meters surrounding the structure. There have been no reports on casualties yet. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
Moscow has called on the opposing political forces of Afghanistan to focus on reaching national reconciliation, instead of taking steps that exacerbate disagreements, Russian Foreign Ministry said. Commenting on two parallel presidential inauguration ceremonies that took place in Afghanistan, it urged all responsible political actors in the country “to adhere solely to common national interests.” The national reconciliation process “should lead to end of the civil […]
There was a celebration in Syria when Russia announced a ceasefire agreement with Turkey on March 3 following a six-hour meeting between Presidents Erdogan and Putin in Moscow. Under the agreement, Erdogan agreed to pull back Turkish forces and not to contest territory that Syria had recently reclaimed from terrorist groups in eastern Aleppo and southern Idlib provinces. In fact, Turkey agreed not to intervene against […]
While the ‘Russiagate’ hoax kept millions entertained in the fantasy world of US cable news, it also had plenty of real-world consequences. Now another can be added to the list: the White House’s absence from Moscow on May 9. US President Donald Trump has rejected Vladimir Putin’s invitation to the Russian capital to mark the 75th anniversary of the World War II victory over Nazi Germany, […]
Though Russia thus far hasn’t been as hard hit as other large countries, with 17 now confirmed out of a population of 145 million — among those likely are some initially evacuated from the epicenter in Wuhan province, China — authorities are not taking any chances, enacting extreme measures to prevent the spread. The city government of Moscow has as of Sunday imposed a “high alert regime” of mandatory self-quarantine for those […]