UrBC, Chelyabinsk, April 3, 2020. Road police offers are now checking the entire traffic around Chelyabinsk Region’s border because of the epidemiological issues in the area, Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Southern Urals division’s press service reports. According to the press service, the police made all drivers switch to contraflow lane reversal, with only one lane available on the roads now. All drivers and their passengers must get back to where they live. The only exception to this rule are vehicles transiting through Chelyabinsk Region and trucks delivering food and essential

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 3, 2020. Rosatom/TVEL’s Rusatom Additive Technologies has come up with prototype samples of Venturi valves used for oxygen masks and is now ready to 3D-print them, TVEL’s press service reports. The need for Venturi valves has soared since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Rusatom can make up to 300 valves a week. The valves get made from bio-compatible polymeric materials and need no additional treatment. Venturi valves get used in combination with oxygen masks for oxygen therapy, providing a lower concentration of the oxygen supplied to the patient. The valves need to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 3, 2020. Fifteen Sverdlovsk Region-based companies that kept on working throughout the quarantine break have been closed forcefully, Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers’ Sverdlovsk Region division’s press service reports. All the organizations got closed by a court’s ruling. Six of these tried to carry on business as usual in Pervouralsk, and three companies still worked in Yekaterinburg. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order to make March 30-April 5 non-work days last week. Exceptions were made for companies selling essential items,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 3, 2020. MMK Group’s largest member enterprise Mekhanoremontny Kompleks LLC adopted a set of measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The steps include informing the company employees about ways to prevent COVID-19, quarantine measures, and disinfecting efforts. Special efforts are made to reduce the number of people per room. According to Director at Mekhanoremontny Kompleks Oleg Shiryayev, the company sent as many of its workers on days off as possible during the non-work week: over a thousand out of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 3, 2020. Ural Airlines are going to take Russian nationals stuck in India because of the novel coronavirus pandemic restrictions back to Russia. According to the company’s press service, Ural Airlines supported the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya)’s initiative to coordinate the necessary evacuation flights. The airline worked in partnership with Rosaviatsiya, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the Russian Federation Embassy in Delhi to be granted the permission to operate the flights. ‘Passengers on the embassy’s list with tickets for Ural Airlines