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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what they do in Russia if you are suspected of having coronavirus
They send you to a nice little town in Siberia. And if you try to escape, they forcibly bring you back.
Four Russian women were in Wuhan together. Three decided to wait it out. One went back to Russia. From the Daily Beast:
But she wasnt going back home.
Until we all got to the airport, we thought we would go to the the Moscow region, but then it turned out we were flying to Tyumen, a city in Siberia, Nadia told The Daily Beast.
The 128 Russians on the evacuation flights that landed in Tyumen were from 44 Russian towns, but they were all doomed to spend two weeks behind locked doors, waiting to hear the results of their tests.
Volunteers gave the arrivals T-shirts that said, with what was supposed to be humorous irony: In Siberia By My Own Will. (Nadia wore them on several Instagram posts.) The reference was to millions of prisoners sent to Siberia very much against their will in the past. Under the circumstances, the joke didnt seem so funny.
Earlier, a resident of St. Petersburg with coronavirus symptoms escaped from a hospital. The woman refused to spend two weeks in an isolation ward after she tested negative for the virus. But she was caught and sent back.
Tyumen was chosen for quarantined returnees from Wuhan for a reason, and not only for its remote location among vast oil fields. The city is a microcosm of President Vladimir Putins ideal Russia: comfortable, loyal, militarized and free of voices criticizing the Kremlins policy. Moscow trusts Tyumen and Tyumen demonstrates order and loyalty to Moscow.
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maryellen99
(3,781 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I'm not sure there's much difference, really.
33taw
(2,420 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I don't remember seeing any follow-up stories about that in the news, though.
The 14 days are about over, so we should hear about them being released, i'd think.
moondust
(19,917 posts)Russia has provided North Korea with coronavirus diagnosis kits at the request of Pyongyang, according to the Russian foreign ministry on Wednesday.
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https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200227007800325?section=nk/nk
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213021330
Does Russia know something about COVID-19 that the rest of the world doesn't? Why would they have test kits ready to go already when nobody else does? Are the kits fake? Was the virus developed in a Russian lab? Germ warfare experiment?
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)The virus was not developed in any lab.
This is not 'germ warfare' it is at least the 3rd time that a new variety of coronavirus has managed to develop within humans in recent history, SARS and MERS being the other two.
I think that covers most of your concerns.
2naSalit
(86,059 posts)is one I have been pondering since this began. It's very convenient and scary and responses include individual isolation and no group gatherings...
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)so that no-one goes in or out if COVID-19 is suspected.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Jezus, it's not the black death.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)The latest numbers posted on the Johns Hopkins site only shows 2 cases total for Russia. Seems unlikely that their numbers are so low.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6