(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Putin: Russia's epidemic peak is delayed The world's leading detection of new coronavirus per 1,000 people
China News Agency, Moscow, June 24 (Reporter Wang Xiujun) On the 23rd, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a televised speech to all citizens. Putin said that Russia took timely measures to delay the peak of the new coronavirus epidemic by one and a half months to two months, and won valuable time to save more people's lives. Russia currently leads the world in detection of new coronavirus per 1,000 people.
Putin said that Russia is the world's largest country, and the situation is different in each region. At present, the situation is still serious in Tuva, Yamal-Nenets and other regions. However, Russia already has a mature mechanism in place. If necessary, the entire Russia can be mobilized to support difficult areas. "No one will be left behind."
Putin said that the total amount of detection in Russia has exceeded 17 million times, and Russia has the world's leading detection amount of new coronavirus per 1,000 people. With such large-scale testing, asymptomatic infections can be detected early. In many countries, severe overloading of hospitals has become a major cause of high mortality. The epidemic proves that the Russian health care system can increase its scale in a short time to respond to emergencies. In addition, Russia is also one of the few countries that can produce anti-new coronavirus drugs on its own.
In his speech, Putin proposed to extend the time for providing additional subsidies to medical staff from July to September, increase the personal income tax rate for people with an annual income of more than 5 million rubles, and again pay 10,000 to children aged 3 to 16 in July. Ruble; extend the welfare policies such as the increase in unemployment benefits previously issued to August. In addition, Putin proposed that the government allocate another 300 billion rubles to provide low-interest loans to enterprises, assist various federal entities, and update road networks.
Putin said that Russia has the resources and capabilities to quickly restore the national economy. I have asked the government and local authorities to take all necessary measures to fully restore the labor market by 2021 and reduce the number of Russian unemployed to the level before the outbreak.
The chairman of the Russian Federal Council (the upper house of parliament) Matt Viyenko said that Putin's proposal has great social significance. The Federal Council will implement relevant recommendations in the form of legislation from the 24th.
Since the outbreak, Putin made his first televised speech on March 25. Since then, Putin has summarized the epidemic situation of the nodes at various times in the form of television speeches and proposed a series of social welfare policies.
According to Russia's new crown virus epidemic prevention and control headquarters on the 23rd, Russia has added 7425 new cases of new crown virus infections in the past day, and the total number of infections in Russia has reached 599705 cases. (Finish)