The Russian government on Friday proposed international flights should resume from July 15 after it re-opened sports facilities and restaurants, despite recording thousands of new cases, and as it continued trials of drugs to treat COVID-19.
To enter Russia, foreigners would need to have tested negative for the novel coronavirus in the last three days before their arrival, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Friday.
A Fujita Health University researcher Yohei Doi, after completing trials on 89 patients across Japan, said on Friday that Avigan yielded inconclusive results as a treatment of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. Andrey Ivashenko, ChemRar’s board chairman, said in a statement that Avifavir has the most impact when used on early and mid-coronavirus stages and less impact if taken later.
On Friday, Russia reported 6,635 new cases, down from a mid-May peak of nearly 12,000 and bringing its nationwide tally of infections to 713,936, the world’s fourth highest.
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