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Russia has reported 9,035 new cases of Covid-19 today, down slightly on the previous day, taking the nation’s total number of confirmed cases to 414,878, and 162 deaths, bringing the overall death toll from the virus to 4,855.
On Saturday Russian authorities approved the antiviral drug Avifavir, known generically as favipiravir, which was developed in Japan in the late 1990s but modified recently in Russia, and will start using it to treat patients from 11 June, the head of Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev, has told Reuters. Dmitriev said that in clinical trials involving 330 people the drug successfully treated the virus in most cases within four days.
The big controversy in Cordoba, Spain concerns Prince Joachim of Belgium, who flew into the country on 24 May, attended a party with 26 other people when he should have been in a 14-day quarantine period and has now tested positive for coronavirus. ““I would like to apologise for not having respected all the quarantine measures during my trip. In these difficult moments, I did not intend to offend or disrespect anyone,” the prince said in a letter released yesterday. “I deeply regret my actions and accept the consequences.”
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