UrBC, Chelyabinsk, April 10, 2020. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler went into self-isolation in his office; he’ll have to spend the next few days there after it transpired he came in close contact with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus; the person in question is the governor’s press secretary Sergey Zyus. Governor Teksler informed the press about the new format he’ll be working in. The governor doesn’t leave his office now and does all the work through video conferencing. The reporters were addressed in the same (online) manner. According to preliminary bits

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2020. Three more people in Sverdlovsk Region have tested positive for COVID-19 on April 8-9, 2020, the local special-purpose unit reports. This means the total number of patients in the area comes to 59 people. In Russia on the whole, 1,459 people have tested positive in fifty different federal constituencies in the last twenty-four hours. The total number of confirmed cases currently comes to 10,131. 13 people have died in the last twenty-four hours and 76 people have died all in all so far; 118 people have recovered in the last twenty-four hours and 698 people

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, April 10, 2020. The management of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) issued a commentary on the company’s Steps to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 Act, MMK’s press service reports. According to the company’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev, the goal is to inform each and every worker of their employer’s stance on the matter. MMK employees are now in charge of watching their health and must keep checking for symptoms, fever, and so on. ‘Given all this, an employee must act accordingly in terms of whether to go to work or to stay at home and contact medical authorities.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2020. A thermal camera appliance has been installed at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine; the appliance allows for automatic, remote detection of potential infection-carriers, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. The thermal camera has been placed at the office building entrance. The high-resolution camera works in combination with the software that sends data to control panel online. The system can scan an unlimited number of people at the same time, and in case someone with a fever gets detected, a sound and color alarm gets sent to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2020. Ural Airline’s net profit (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) rose by 5.4 times in 2019 compared with 2018 and reached RUB 2.092 billion, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline’s revenues increased by 8.8% and amounted to RUB 88.48 billion, including the RUB 68.156 billion stemming from operating scheduled flights (compared with RUB 62.562 billion in 2018). The amount includes RUB 31.668 billion coming from domestic air travel and RUB 36.488 billion coming from international air travel. The cost of revenue went up