The market administration in the city of Poti in western Georgia began to disinfect money: now the coins are treated with an antiseptic solution, and paper bills are ironed, Ria Novosti reports.
Earlier, the deputy head of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia, Paata Imnadze, said that a hot iron or disinfectant would be effective for disinfecting cash.
Before entering the market, visitors give their money, a special person processes the coins with an antiseptic solution, and irons paper bills with an iron and then returns it to the owner.
In addition, all market visitors undergo thermal screening, receive disposable gloves for free, and are required to maintain a distance.
The governor of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Alexander Motsereliya, visited the agricultural market in Poti on Sunday. He noted that all sanitary and hygienic standards, as well as social distance, were observed on the spot.
In turn, the agricultural markets in Telavi (Kakheti region) and Senaki (Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region), on the contrary, are temporarily closed on Monday, due to non-compliance with recommendations and sanitary standards.
Trade in agricultural markets has been suspended due to violations discovered during an unscheduled inspection conducted by the National Food Agency.
The administration of the Telavi market claims that it regularly disinfected the territory and that buyers were allowed to enter the market in turn.
Since March 20, all retail outlets, including food markets, have been temporarily closed in Georgia. Allowed to work: pharmacies, grocery stores, pet stores, warehouses, agricultural markets, animal markets, fertilizer stores, household appliances stores, and gas stations.
Russia will begin testing a covid vaccine on paid volunteers next week, writes The Moscow Times.
Vadim Tarasov, the director of the institute that will conduct the study, explained that 50 volunteers were selected, and those who will participate in the study until the end will be paid 100,000 rubles ($ 1,450). Those who participate only partially will be rewarded with 20,000 rubles ($ 288). The vaccine was developed by a state-owned research institute.
The study, which will begin on June 7, is open to "healthy women and men, aged 18-60," according to documents distributed earlier this week on social media by students at a medical university in Moscow. Tarasov confirmed the authenticity of the test guide and the online registration form.
In the first phase of the study, participants will be isolated at a medical unit in Zvenigorod, a city 50 km from Moscow, on June 9-22. The vaccine will be administered to participants only in the second phase, which will take place between June 23 and July 20, and the volunteers will be transferred to a research center in Moscow.
Russia ranks third in the world in the number of coronavirus cases, with more than 440,000 patients. On Thursday, 8,831 new cases and 169 deaths were confirmed.
Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski, announced that she had been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, but that her husband and the couple's two children had been tested negative.
"I received a positive coronavirus test today. Unexpected news, considering that both me and my family still follow all the rules - masks, gloves, minimal contact ", wrote the first lady of Ukraine on Twitter.
However, she explained that she is feeling well, not being hospitalized at the moment, but that she will be isolated from her husband and children. According to the press service of the President's Office, the first lady currently has no symptoms of the disease.
However, in order not to spread the virus, Olena Zelenska is on outpatient treatment, isolated from other family members. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski and the children also passed the test, their results being negative. Ukraine has so far reported 29,753 coronavirus infections, with 870 people losing their lives due to COVID-19.
The melting of permafrost, in which bacteria and viruses tens of thousands of years old are currently trapped, is a time bomb that threatens the whole world.
Permafrost (frozen soil) can be found in the northern hemisphere, where it covers about a quarter of the earth and is generally over tens of thousands of years old, according to Science Alert.
This type of soil covers a large area of ​​the Arctic Circle and the boreal forests, and is also found in Alaska, Canada and Russia.
Scientists estimate that inside the permafrost is 1.7 trillion tons of frozen carbon, from rotten plants and dead animals, sedimented and then covered by an ice shelf.
Due to global warming, permafrost is melting and releasing carbon dioxide and methane, greenhouse gases on the planet.
If global warming is not stopped or slowed down, permafrost could largely melt by 2100, releasing a carbon bomb.
Melting permafrost could also lead to the release of more bacteria and viruses trapped in the ice shelf.
This phenomenon already happened in 2016 in Russia, in northern Siberia. One child died after being infected with anthrax, which scientists believe came from the bodies of 70 reindeer, dug up by melting ice.
Among the diseases that could return after melting permafrost and glaciers is an ancient strain of smallpox.
In 2014, scientists discovered a harmless virus called Pithovius sibericum, which was trapped in Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years.
The capital of China, on alert after the discovery of the first cases of COVID-19 in the last two months
Beijing closed two markets on Friday and postponed resumption of primary school classes following the discovery of three new cases of COVID-19 in the city after two months in which no new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the Chinese capital.
The first country affected by the new coronavirus at the end of last year, China has meanwhile managed to slow down the epidemic considerably, with only a few new cases of disease being reported daily in recent weeks, most of them among people returning from abroad.
But a case of COVID-19 of unknown origin was confirmed in Beijing on Thursday, followed by two more on Friday. The last case of COVID-19 confirmed before them dates from mid-April. From the beginning of the epidemic until then, a total of 597 cases of COVID-19 and 9 deaths have been confirmed in Beijing, agerpres.ro reports.
The last two contaminated people are employees of the Meat Research Center. One of them had recently visited the eastern city of Qingdao. Two markets in Beijing where these two people were were completely or partially closed on Friday and will be disinfected.
Authorities also decided to postpone the resumption of schooling for three primary classes until an indefinite date, after it was initially agreed that schools would reopen on Monday. Pupils in the Chinese capital have gradually returned to school since the end of April, after three months of forced vacation and distance learning.
An American who spent two months in hospital with Covid-19 received a $ 1.1 million hospitalization bill. Fortunately, you may not have to pay anything for the 181-page-long bill.
Michael Flor, 70, was known to the public as the patient with the longest hospital stay, Covid-19, 62 days. He was on the verge of death several times - at one point doctors called his family to say goodbye, writes the Seattle Times.
Eventually, the man recovered and left the hospital, but, he says, he was close to dying of a heart attack again when he saw the hospitalization bill: $ 1.1 million, expenses broken down by 181 pages.
Fortunately for him, Medicare is insured, which covers most of the costs. In addition, being a Covid-19 patient, he may not pay anything, with the US government pumping over $ 100 billion into the health care system to help cover the costs of treating Covid-19 patients.
Break down, his expenses look like this:
Intensive Care admission: $ 9,736 per day. 42 days in solitary confinement cost $ 408,912
mechanical fan: $ 2,835 per day. Multiplied by 29 days, equals $ 82,215
about a quarter of the bill - the cost of drugs
2 days in which his internal organs (heart, kidneys, lungs) almost gave way and he was closest to death, about $ 100,000 (broken down into 20 pages).
In total, almost 3,000 expenses listed on the 181 pages, about 50 per day.