In total, 17,489 people have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic in Armenia. Of these, 293 died, 6 571 recovered.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan went on a long live broadcast on his Facebook page and said that wearing masks means saving lives:

“People don’t wear masks, and this is the main reason for the spread of the virus.”

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In the “memory list” in Russia, which includes doctors who died from coronavirus, there are already 413 names. This is the largest number of dead doctors and nurses in the world since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Although the acute phase of the pandemic began in Russia in March, the medical staff and in June in most hospitals in the country have mainly plastic raincoats and surgical masks that doctors themselves wash and dry on batteries. Those who start complaining are usually fired or fined “for spreading fakes.”

Human Rights Watch received this information as a result of a study in May-June 2020 in 11 regions of Russia, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. An ambulance doctor from the city of Korolev, Evgenia Bogatyreva, heads the local independent trade union in the Moscow region, she told Human Rights Watch that in fact at least 50% of the medical staff were infected with the coronavirus in this region.

“The punishment for exposing deadly violations must be prohibited by law, this is a direct violation of the freedom of expression,” the Human Rights Watch emphasizes.

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“Russia is confidently and with minimal losses coming out of the coronavirus epidemic,” Russian President Putin told the Rossiya television channel.

Throughout the country, quarantine measures have been almost completely abolished.

At the same time, Russia is in third place in the world in the number of infected, and every day about 8-9 thousand new cases are reported.

As of June 15, the total number of cases of infections in Russia is more than half a million, the number of deaths is 6,948. Doctors and experts, however, continue to claim that these statistics are falsified and the real picture is much worse.

Comparative data

• In Russia, 13 people die for every thousand infected people. The world average is 55.

• The country ranks third in the world in terms of infections – and 13th in the world in terms of deaths.

World Health Organization Emergency Management Program Director Michael Ryan said he did not understand the “unusual” Russian statistics.
A spokesman for Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that “the healthcare system in Russia has proven more effective.”

• However, Russia took only 97th place in the global competitiveness rating of the World Economic Forum.

• Also, in terms of health care spending, the Russian Federation is not even in the first hundred countries of the world.

• The head of the Accounts Chamber of Russia, Alexei Kudrin, said that “medicine is significantly underfunded even according to current standards and requires serious restructuring.”

The Republic publication writes sarcastically about this: if, nevertheless, Russian medicine copes so successfully with the epidemic that the West is confronted with, is it worth spending money on it at all?

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There are 397 new cases in Armenia, with a total of 17,064 people infected since the start of the pandemic. Of these, 285 died, 6,276 recovered.

Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan stated that the danger of intensification of the coronavirus epidemic in autumn remains relevant for both Armenia and other countries:

“We are expanding our capabilities and preparing for the fall, although now we have enough problems.”

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According to social media and media reports, the father of Ramzan Kadyrov’s wife, Musa Aydamirov, died of coronavirus pneumonia.

Abusheikh Wismuradov, the former head of the Grozny police, also died. He is a brother of the vice speaker of the Chechen parliament, Abuzayd Wismuradov, known under the nickname Patriot, he is a close associate of Kadyrov.

According to social media and media reports, in May the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was infected with a coronavirus and was in a hospital in Moscow.

According to official information, 1,464 people have been infected in Chechnya since the beginning of the pandemic, 23 cases have been identified over the past 24 hours.

18 people died, 1,123 recovered.

Activists and journalists report that in fact in Chechnya there are many times more infected and dead, but most of those infected are afraid or ashamed to admit it and therefore are not tested.

• A timeline of events in the Caucasus related to coronavirus epidemic, 9-13 June, 2020