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[link:https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/09/830476803/russia-tops-10-000-coronavirus-cases-with-moscow-at-the-epicenter|
In a televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he was ordering an extension of a national "non-working week," a measure designed to increase social distancing, until the end of the month, according to The Moscow Times.
He also signed legislation making it a crime to break coronavirus quarantine rules, with a punishment of up to seven years in prison and a sentence of up to five years in prison for spreading false information about the novel coronavirus, the newspaper said.
Putin said he would delegate decision-making to regional authorities because of the differences in infection rates throughout the country.
So the asshole is admitting it.
gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)Official numbers are only numbers of those who tested positive. They are many more that haven't been tested.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Good luck with that.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)twice (breaking social distancing rule AND spreading false info). Arrest him Putin, go ahead. Make my day!