With Russia recording a new daily high in its number of new coronavirus cases and deaths today, President Putin extended the country’s lockdown measures for another 2 weeks—warning that the worst of the outbreak is still to come by skleb1234
the “deficit of some items,” including medical equipment like PPE. He said Russia has ramped up production recently, and ordered his government to increase those rates further.Russia originally shut its border with China in late January, before putting major cities on lockdown on March 30. It had initially reported less cases than other major European countries in the early weeks of the pandemic, until the recent surge in new infections over the last few days.
, it has been proposed that big banks pursue more aggressive state debt purchases in order to fund budget shortfalls and stem the hit from coronavirus.“Ahead of us is a new stage, perhaps the most intense stage of the fight against the epidemic,” Putin on Tuesday. “The risks of getting infected are at the highest level, and the threat, the mortal danger of the virus persists.”
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