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"From this morning we have brought a special drug used in China which is claimed to have resulted in improvements in intensive care patients, cutting their time in care from 11-12 days to four days. The new drugs will be used by COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care units.”

“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish (U. Penn) President Gutmann had heard the COVID-19 mortality rates in the U.S. were just above 0.1 percent, very similar to the seasonal flu, and acted like it.”

“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France in 1920 due to the Spanish influenza.”

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“In sacred places like this, there is no room for viruses, germs or diseases.”

“Shame on the Ukrainian government. Shame! They need to get their people. Need to give maximum effort.”

“Transnistrians will not be able to cross the Moldovan-Ukrainian border by car.”

“I cannot rule out (the possibility of the use of climate weapons). America, which is using everything modern technology is capable of, can do this as well. But you can’t use climate weapons against, say, Russia; you can use it against the whole world, but we will suffer the most because of it.”

“The version that the plane was shot down by a rocket cannot be true under any circumstances … it is impossible from the scientific point of view.”

"In this situation, we cannot exclude that the American military and intelligence agencies took advantage of the story of the disturbances near the U.S. Embassy in Iraq in their corporate interests and simply framed Donald Trump, who did not fully understand the significance of the figure of Qassem Soleimani, who has the status of a national hero in Iran."

“The Americans are using ISIS as a scarecrow. At the same time they are feeding ISIS, encourage them, protect ISIS leaders and help them move from one area to another.”

“Vilnius police arrested two U.S. citizens on suspicion of an attempted car theft. Saulius Gagas, chief of the Vilnius County police, said that it is difficult to detect such crimes. But after hard work, two suspects were detained. Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis, in turn, called the case ‘extraordinary’.”