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Re:Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country by kds3 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:29PM (#22783020)
Maybe because they started testing early? Their first cases were in January and they screened everyone in airports since then [0], they performed 639606 tests with 4731 positives. [1][2]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-pneumonia-russi...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing

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Re:Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country by amai on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:07PM (#22787681)
Let's read some real news:

- https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/04/02/russian-public-health-a...

- https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/03/18/at-the-peak-we-could...

- https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/04/03/russian-doctors-unio...

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Re:Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country by ineedasername on Sunday April 05, 2020 @09:40PM (#22790233)
That makes it sound about as sealed shut on speaking out as the Chinese were in the early days, only without the mass quarantines that they wouldn't be able to hide as easily. Either way it doesn't paint a good picture.
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