Secrets about the destroyer at a stop, COVID records. Highlights for the weekend

Records for deaths from CORONAVIRUS have been broken in St. Petersburg and Moscow, secret documents were found at a bus stop in Britain about the passage of a destroyer near Crimea, and the first country in Europe lifted all restrictions. The main thing for the weekend - in the review of RBC

Secret documents at the bus stop and "zero bottom"

Relations between RUSSIA and the UK have reached "bottom zero," said Ambassador Andrei Kelin, commenting on the situation with the destroyer Defender, which entered Russian territorial waters near Crimea. And on Sunday, the BBC reported that documents from the Ministry of Defense were found at a bus stop in Britain, from which it follows that the decision to pass the destroyer Defender near Crimea was balanced and the authorities were aware of the risks, including an “aggressive” reaction from Russia.

According to the BBC, Britain considered several options for the passage of the destroyer. The route, which includes a short section near the southwestern tip of Crimea, will allow interaction with the Ukrainian authorities "in the territory that the UK recognizes as Ukrainian territorial waters," the documents said. “Agents 007 are not the same,” Maria Zakharova, a representative of the department, wrote about this. Defender June 23 entered the territorial waters of Russia in the area of ​​Cape Fiolent in the Crimea, near Sevastopol. The ship managed to go deep by 3 km and did not respond to warnings. The destroyer left Russian waters only after firing from the patrol ship and bombs dropped from the Su-24M along the course.

Records for deaths from covid in Moscow and St. Petersburg

On June 26, the operational headquarters reported that 107 people died from coronavirus in St. Petersburg in a day. This was a record for the region for the entire pandemic. The next day, Moscow recorded a record number of deaths due to coronavirus infection per day - 114.

For all the time in St. Petersburg, more than 460 thousand people became infected, almost 16 thousand died, in Moscow - 1.3 million and 22 thousand, respectively.

The first country in Europe to lift all restrictions

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Since June 26, the Icelandic government has lifted all restrictions imposed in the country in connection with the covid-19 pandemic . Since midnight on June 26, the mask regime and social distancing have been canceled in the country, as well as the restriction on freedom of assembly has been lifted.

Starting July 1, those who enter Iceland and provide certificates of vaccination with drugs approved by the European regulator will be exempted from mandatory testing for COVID-19. Now 87% of the adult population in Iceland has received at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and at least 60% have received both components. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6,637 people have fallen ill in the country, 30 of them have died.

Can pregnant women be vaccinated with Sputnik V

The Ministry of HEALTH allowed pregnant women to be vaccinated with Sputnik V on June 25. Women at high risk of severe COVID-19 were given the opportunity to get vaccinated.

Two days later, the authorities changed the recommendations. Now they say that it is worth using Sputnik V during pregnancy only when the expected benefit to the mother outweighs the potential risk to the fetus. It is also forbidden to vaccinate with this drug during breastfeeding.

What else happened over the weekend

Private investor Oleg Burlakov, included in the list of 200 richest Russian businessmen, has died from the coronavirus. His family decided to conduct an independent international examination of the circumstances of the entrepreneur's death. By the end of the year, the number of brokerage accounts of Russians will reach 15 million, Yury Denisov, HEAD of the Moscow Exchange, predicted. As of April 1, the Central Bank had 12.7 million private investors in the country, but not all of their accounts are active. The WHO has raised concerns about the spread of a mutation in the Indian Delta Plus strain of the coronavirus. If urgent measures cannot be taken, a lockdown will have to be introduced, said Melita Vujnovic, WHO representative in Russia. DIRECTOR General of the European Medical Center (EMC) Andrey Yanovsky, in an interview with RBC, spoke about how private medical centers were among the beneficiaries of the pandemic and lockdowns. According to RBC,