UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 21, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s population decreased by 23,000 people between 2017 and 2019 (-0.4%), RIA Novosti’s demographic rating of Russian non-capital constituencies for the year 2020 indicates. 4,700 people arrived in the area as migrants in 2017-2019. As of January 1, 2020, Sverdlovsk Region’s overall population count came to 4,310,700 people. This gave the constituency the 31st position in the national demographic rating (the higher the number, the better the demographic situation). As for all the constituencies in Ural Federal District, Tyumen Region

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 21, 2020. 78 patients and doctors at Yekaterinburg Clinic 1 have preliminarily tested positive for COVID-19, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev announced via his Instagram account on April 20, 2020. According to what is known so far, the patients and doctors got the virus from a medical professional, who, in their turn, got it from a neighbor. ‘The situation is under control, as most of the suspected COVID-19 carriers show no symptoms and feel fine. Only one patient is in critical condition at the moment. The entire clinic has been quarantined,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 21, 2020. EVRAZ Holding supplied over 800,000 kg of rolled metal goods to build COVID-19-oriented clinics in Russia. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant and EVRAZ West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant made H-beams, steel sheets, fittings, L-beams, and channel beams for the construction projects. The goods have been supplied to future clinics’ sites in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Ufa, and Krasnoyarsk. So far, the foundations have been laid at every construction site, and the builders started putting the structures up, the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 21, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group directed more than RUB 520 million to healthcare programs in 2019. The Group’s parent company MMK allocated RUB 255.3 million for the purpose, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘MMK employees could enjoy the company healthcare packages last year as part of their voluntary medical insurance program. 17 people underwent medical treatment in clinics in Russia and abroad. 3,670 people had their dental bills co-paid by the company as well; they could choose from among several dental clinics of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 21, 2020. No people have tested positive for COVID-19 at ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises as of April 20, 2020, the company’s press service reports. Two employees at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant will have to stay in quarantine for two weeks, as they have come in contact with confirmed COVID-19 carriers. One employee came in contact with a relative who came in contact with a confirmed carrier; the other employee’s wife has tested positive. The information regarding both cases has been forwarded to Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor; neither