TIRANA – Russia has carried out over 1.5 million laboratory tests for the novel coronavirus ranking second in the world for the number of tests for the coronavirus, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing has said as quoted by TASS news agency on Wednesday.
“As of 15.04.2020, over 1.5 mln laboratory tests for the novel coronavirus have been carried out, using the samples from people, including those who arrived from the countries affected by the novel coronavirus infection. Russia is ranked second in the world for the total number of tests for the novel coronavirus,” the Russian sanitary watchdog said.
To date, a total of 24,490 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 1,986 patients having recovered from the virus. The latest data indicates 198 fatalities nationwide. Earlier, the Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public updated on the coronavirus situation, said the dispatch of TASS.
In another event the Federation Council Speaker, Valentina Matviyenko announced on Thursday that the military parade on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazism will be postponed to a date in the near future.
“I can say with certainty and promise to you that a parade on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, our great Victory, will certainly take place this year. It will be grandiose, it will be large-scale, it will be worthy of the heroic accomplishment of the Red Army, our people, the peoples of the Soviet Union and the victory over Nazism,” Matviyenko told the media in an online conference.
On April 15, Russia’s organizations of World War II veterans asked the president to move the parade in Moscow from May 9 to a later date, when the coronavirus situation returns to normal.
Matviyenko said that regardless of the date May 9 would certainly be a family holiday in each home, “because there is no family in our country that has not been scorched by the blaze of that war.”/argumentum.al
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