RTSat, 28 Mar 2020 16:37 UTC
© Sputnik / Oleg MineevA Russian border guard officer checks the temperature of a truck driver at Belarusian-Russian border.
Automobile, railway, pedestrian and river checkpoints on the Russian border will go on a lockdown on Monday in order to prevent Covid-19 from spreading across the country, the government has announced.
The order said that the measure was "temporary," but provided no indication as to when the border traffic will resume.The border ban
doesn't apply to diplomats or members of official delegations departing from the country. Russian truck drivers serving international routes, as well as the crews of trains and river vessels, will be able to return home. Exceptions will also be made for the residents of the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, as well as Russian passport holders living in the People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has been recently taking a large-scale effort to tackle the highly contagious disease, which included canceling all regular and charter flights in and out of the country.
The whole next week had been declared a paid nationwide holiday, with the public advised to stay indoors. Restaurants, parks, cinemas and other establishments where large groups of people can gather, except the most essential ones, will also shut down.
The overall number of infected now stands at 1,264 in Russia, with 228 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. Up to seven Covid-19 patients have died.
Comment: Russian specialists say they have
identified a good treatment for Covid-19 - Mefloquine, an anti-malarial drug. Two more have
died in Russia (both in their fifties with pre-existing conditions), with total cases reaching 1,264. Lombardy's VP has
called Russia's assistance there "very much needed":
The Russian servicemen will first be providing assistance to 65 of Bergamo's homes for the elderly, which are suffering from a lack of qualified personnel, according to the deputy head of Russia's own NBC defense forces, Sergey Kikot.
When a Russian field hospital is established in the city, the medics will then move their operations there, Kikot said.
Here they are
disinfecting a nursing home.
Cases worldwide have
reached over 615k. India saw a daily jump up to
900 cases. Spain
recorded over 800 new deaths. (These numbers shouldn't be seen as definitive - they are based in large part on catchall diagnostics, not lab testing.)
Netherlands recorded 93 new deaths, and 1,100+ new cases. Germany recorded almost 6,300
new cases, with a total death toll of 325. Merkel is
warning that Germany's lockdown won't be lifted.
Gaza saw its first cases, and West Bank recorded a spike. (Israel coldheartedly
confiscated a Palestinian field clinic.) Wuhan reopened its
subway, and China has sent its first
train of medical supplies to Europe. Rouhani says Iran's healthcare system is
ready for a peak in infection, whereas over in LA, the
mayor says he expects the city to catch up with NYC in terms of cases within days. Tragically, over 1,000 Iranians were
poisoned after a rumor that methanol protects against Covid-19.
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Comment: Russian specialists say they have identified a good treatment for Covid-19 - Mefloquine, an anti-malarial drug. Two more have died in Russia (both in their fifties with pre-existing conditions), with total cases reaching 1,264. Lombardy's VP has called Russia's assistance there "very much needed": Here they are disinfecting a nursing home.
Cases worldwide have reached over 615k. India saw a daily jump up to 900 cases. Spain recorded over 800 new deaths. (These numbers shouldn't be seen as definitive - they are based in large part on catchall diagnostics, not lab testing.) Netherlands recorded 93 new deaths, and 1,100+ new cases. Germany recorded almost 6,300 new cases, with a total death toll of 325. Merkel is warning that Germany's lockdown won't be lifted. Gaza saw its first cases, and West Bank recorded a spike. (Israel coldheartedly confiscated a Palestinian field clinic.) Wuhan reopened its subway, and China has sent its first train of medical supplies to Europe. Rouhani says Iran's healthcare system is ready for a peak in infection, whereas over in LA, the mayor says he expects the city to catch up with NYC in terms of cases within days. Tragically, over 1,000 Iranians were poisoned after a rumor that methanol protects against Covid-19.
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