On April 6, Russia resumed international flights for the export of Russian citizens from foreign countries. This is reported by the Government Coordinating Council on countering the spread of new coronavirus infection.

“Today the first two flights will be completed: Bishkek - Yekaterinburg and Dhaka - Nizhny Novgorod. Information on subsequent flights will be posted on the website Stopkoronavirus.ru and the State Service Portal, ”the press release posted on the Cabinet’s website says.

Recall that from April 4, Russia temporarily suspended flights for the return of citizens to prevent a new wave of imported cases of coronavirus. Citizens who are abroad and want to leave for the Russian Federation were asked to fill out a special form on a single portal of public services in order to create a schedule for export. In addition, 500 million rubles were allocated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, in particular, to pay for Russians living in foreign countries.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin during an operational meeting with deputy prime ministers on April 6 stressed that the suspension was due to the fact that there were a large number of cases when citizens applied for export flights, but did not appear for boarding. According to him, many flights were empty, but those who really wanted to return to the Russian Federation could not do this.

“Please take this more responsibly, write statements only if you really need to return home right now. Full and objective information will allow us to clearly organize work and quickly return you to your homeland - to your near and dear ones. The government is making every effort for this, ”said the head of government.

  • Russian tourists awaiting check-in at the airport of the Slovenian city of Brnik
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FMBA development

The Federal Medical and Biological Agency has developed a treatment regimen for severe coronavirus pneumonia accompanied by respiratory failure, said the head of the FMBA Veronika Skvortsova. The therapy is based on the use of the Dalargin drug, which is registered as a medicine that is used to heal trophic ulcers and protect organs and tissues (lungs, liver, pancreas).

The agency noted that the severity of COVID-19 disease is due to the development of pneumonia, which is complicated by a systemic inflammatory reaction, the so-called cytokine storm, and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

“Given the good tolerability and safety of the drug“ Dalargin ”, proven in registration studies, today the Federal Medical and Biological Agency is launching clinical trials of“ Dalargin ”in severe coronavirus pneumonia accompanied by respiratory failure with a risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome,” said Skvortsova.

The FMBA, citing animal studies, indicated that the use of Dalargin increased the survival of animals with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

“From 70 to 100% of the animals survived with different drug administration regimens,” the press service said.

It should be noted that at the end of March the Research and Production Center Pharmzashchita of the FMBA of Russia, taking into account Chinese and French experience, developed a treatment regimen for coronavirus infection based on the antimalarial drug Meflohin.

At the same time, the Ministry of Health of Russia updated the recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, adding to them possible preparations for adults: lopinavir + ritonavir, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, interferon drugs, as well as umifenovir and remdesivir undergoing clinical trials.

In addition, the head of the biomedical sciences section of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Vladimir Chekhonin, reported on the development of three drugs that could potentially be used to treat coronavirus infection. We are talking about triazavirin, favipiravir and fortepren.

Two dead in Moscow

On Monday evening, two more victims of coronavirus infection COVID-19 became known. In Moscow, patients 67 and 72 years old died, in whom bilateral pneumonia was confirmed and there was a positive test result for coronavirus.

“Both patients had comorbidities. Among them are chronic bronchitis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiosclerosis, ”the report said.

According to the data as of April 6, 11:00 Moscow time, 6343 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded in 80 regions of Russia. At the same time, 406 people recovered.

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Moreover, as follows from the data of the American Johns Hopkins University, more than 1.3 million cases of coronavirus infection worldwide have already occurred, more than 73 thousand people have died, and at least 273 thousand people have recovered.

The leader in this indicator is the United States of America, where over 350 thousand cases of COVID-19 and more than 10 thousand deaths from the consequences of the disease were detected.