In the closed city of Tsiolkovsky in the cosmodrome East, the first recorded case of infection with coronavirus. It is reported by the head of the city Sergei Levitsky in Instagram.
He urged residents to comply with self-isolation: not to meet people not to talk during a visit to the store, not to gather in groups.
“It’s very dangerous,” — said the mayor.
April 17, from pneumonia caused by a coronavirus, had died two employees of “Roscosmos”.
On April 10 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a remote meeting on the development of the space industry warned the General Director of “Rosatom” Dmitry Rogozin about the inadmissibility cover up their flaws the situation with coronavirus. In the course of the same meeting, Rogozin said that at least 9 of the 33 planned for the current year launches of Russian space rockets can be disrupted due to coronavirus.
The pandemic that has engulfed most countries in the world, has influenced the work of the space industry: in mid-March, all the runs stopped Kourou.
As of may 16, in Russia was 272 043 thousand cases of infection with coronavirus. Recovered 63 of 166 thousand people, 2537 died.
