Putin signs law granting Russian cabinet powers to declare state of emergency

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Wednesday into law a bill granting the cabinet additional powers, including declaring a state of emergency for the entire country.

The law published on the official legal information portal is aimed at dealing with COVID-19.

The president also signed other bills into laws, increasing the liabilities for the breaches of sanitary-epidemiological rules and quarantine.

Russia has registered a total of 2,777 cases of COVID-19 in 75 regions of the country as of Wednesday. 

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