Pandemic coronavirus. Russia partially opens border
The Russian government partially lifts restrictions on the travel of citizens of Russia abroad. As reported by “RIA Novosti”, on 8 June at the meeting of the coordination Council for combating coronavirus was announced by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
According to him, the Russians will be allowed to travel abroad to care for relatives, treatment, work or study. Foreign citizens allowed to enter Russia “medical purposes”.
Mishustin said that already signed the necessary decrees. At the moment on the government website they are not published.
The complete closure of borders, the Russian authorities announced on 28 March.
Flash coronavirus infection COVID-19 began in late 2019 in China. March 11, 2020, the world health organization declared the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As of June 8, in the world of coronavirus infected of 7.03 million people, of which 403,11 thousand died, 3,14 million recovered.
According to information of the Ministry of health of Russia, in the country since the epidemic began 476,65 thousand confirmed cases of infection COVID-19, more than 230 thousand people have recovered, almost 6 thousand died. The number of infected Russia ranks third in the world after the US and Brazil.