Politics

The state Duma in the first reading supported a bill granting the government the right to impose the emergency and high alert throughout the country or parts of it

Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova told Mr Putin that the Russian authorities decided to restrict the flow of compatriots returning from abroad. Moscow aviakhab will take no more than 500 people a day, the airports of other cities - even 200 people.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin regularly tested for coronavirus, said press Secretary of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov after the appearance of reports confirmed the result of analysis of the coronavirus at the head physician of the hospital in Kommunarka Denis Protsenko, with whom Putin met last week.

The state Duma without discussion adopted in all three readings the laws of "antiviral" package. The subjects of the Russian Federation, including Moscow, have received the legal right to impose in its territory specific rules of conduct in terms of "high alert" or emergency. A violation of these rules is to be ruthlessly fined.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that preclinical studies of a vaccine against coronavirus will be held until June 22