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Iranian footballer Alireza Jahanbahsh offered material assistance of 1 billion rials (about $7000) to contain the coronavirus outbreak in his hometown of Qazvin. This was reported by Iranian agency Mehr News on March 17. He also released a video asking people to stay home and follow all the recommendations of Iran's health ministry to survive the worldwide pandemic. Major football and other sporting events around the world have been suspended as a precaution against the outbreak of the disease. Tehran's authorities say their fight against the outbreak is seriously hampered by U.S. ...

The draft resolution on early termination of powers of the deputy of the State Duma from the LDPR Sergey Katasonov submitted to the State Duma deputies of the LDPR faction, the correspondent news agency reports on March 17. Earlier Katasonov came to the plenary session, ignoring the quarantine after visiting France of a country with a disadvantaged situation on coronavirus. It is proposed to terminate the powers of the deputy from March 12, 2020 due to gross violation of sanitary and epidemiological requirements and norms. Read also: Peskov told whether Katasonov could infect Putin to deprive Katasonov of the mandate demanded personally the leader of the party Vladimir Zhirinovsky. At that time, however, he was informed that the legislation did not provide for the deprivation of the powers of a deputy on such grounds. ...

The number of detected cases of coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 3.7 thousand, with the number of deaths reaching 69, reported on March 16, Johns Hopkins University, officially leading the statistics of the disease based on federal and regional data. In particular, at 16:00 Moscow time (9:00 in the USA) the disease was detected in 3,774 people. It is noted that there may be much more cases, as not all residents of the country are examined. According to the news agency, on 11 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially decl...

On the allocation of charter flights for those wishing to return from Turkey to Azerbaijan due to the suspension of communication between the countries due to the threat of coronavirus with reference to information provided at the operational headquarters under the Government of Azerbaijan, RIA Novosti reported on March 15. Information on the mechanism for returning persons who wish to return to Azerbaijan will be provided on 15 March. Returned citizens from Turkey will be examined and if there is a n...

The representative of the national air carrier of the company airBaltic Alice Brieda said that the enterprise is forced to suspend 100 more people, writes the portal tvnet.lv. The company's president, Martins Gaus, acknowledged that the crisis over the COVID-19 was worsening. The news agency reported a previous reduction of 250 employees on March 11. The total number of employees released indefinitely is airBaltic 350. The company offers to leave someone on unpaid leave, terminates the relationship before the end of the probation period, or offers a complete termina...