Prognosis
Coronavirus Tests Fly by Private Jet as Russian Tycoons Help
- Rich Russians have donated over $300 million to fight pandemic
- Billionaires’ aid targets regions where they have assets
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Hours after the first coronavirus diagnosis in Apatity, a city of 55,000 people above the Arctic Circle, a Gulfstream jet owned by the billionaire Guryev family flew in 100 express test kits.
Hundreds more donated by the family soon followed to the region where their PhosAgro PJSC mines key ingredients for fertilizers, an example of how Russia’s billionaires are spending more than $300 million they’ve pledged to help contain the pandemic.