Putin orders daily coronavirus projections, as Russia's tally nears 37,000 COVID19
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the government to provide daily forecasts of the spread of the novel coronavirus as Russia recorded almost 5,000 new cases in a single day.
The government must "provide a short-term prognosis of the number of citizens who may contract the new infectious disease " and report its estimates on a daily basis, according to an order published on the Kremlin's website. "The disease rate in the city is growing but not exponentially, and far from the worst-case scenario," Sobyanin wrote on his website.
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