UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April, 23, 2020. Eight clinics in Sverdlovsk Region went in lockdown because of patients and medical professionals testing positive for COVID-19, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev announced via his Instagram account. The following clinics in Yekaterinburg have been quarantined: Ural Cardiology Institute, Novaya Bolnitsa, Clinic 1, Clinic 40, Clinic 20, and Clinic 14. Additionally, a number of patients and medical professionals have tested positive for COVID-19 at Krasnoufimsk district clinic and Bogdanovich Central Hospital. According to the Governor, around

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April, 23, 2020. Senior Tech Development Expert for Sintering/Coke/Blast Furnace Production at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Evgeny Baranov and Senior Electrotechnical Lab Expert at EVRAZ NTMK Alexander Serebrennikov won awards in Ferrous Metallurgy and ElectroTech in the 20th Engineer of The Year Contest. They received the contest certificates and the titles of Russia’s Professional Engineer. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department, one of the winners, Evgeny Baranov, has been working

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April, 23, 2020. The telecom company MegaFon’s 4G traffic rose by over 60% in the first quarter of 2020 compared with one year earlier. All in all, MegaFon’s customers based in Sverdlovsk Region have downloaded the amount of data equivalent to 436 million views of Little Big’s UNO between January and March 2020. According to MegaFon Ural’s press service, the amount of 4G traffic actually started growing even prior to self-isolation taking off. ‘MegaFon’s engineers looked into the data processed through all of the 4G base stations in Sverdlovsk Region and came to the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April, 23, 2020. MMK Group’s vehicle department has been switched to high-alert mode and is now operating 24/7 because of the risks of the novel coronavirus spreading further. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the vehicle division is contributing to the transit of medical professionals and to the company’s charity program to support the elderly. Three ambulance cars are present on MMK’s primary industrial site round the clock. Medical professionals from the company’s Central Medical Unit use the automobiles for doctor/nurse and patient transfer. ‘Doctors

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, April, 23, 2020. ChelPipe Group’s Warehouse launched an electronic document flow system that is meant to speed up the paperwork processing between the company and its contractors, to ensure both the safe storage and safe delivery of documentation, and to cut down on operational and time costs. ‘SKB-Kontur, a leading developer of online options for accounting and business, acted as our supplier of document flow automation solutions. The new platform makes it possible for the contractors already connected to the e-document flow network to create, send, receive, and sign