What Doctors Think of Mandatory Vaccinations and QR Code Bills
More than a third (36.5%) of doctors opposed the draft laws on QR codes with restrictions for the unvaccinated, it follows from the results of a survey of the mobile application “Doctor’s Guide”. Every fourth (24.6%) fully supports the draft law in its current form.
- Another 17% of doctors are ready to support the bill if the proposed restrictions are expanded. Almost 22% of doctors agree to support the project, but only if the proposed restrictions are reduced.
- The opinions of doctors about the introduction of compulsory vaccination were divided approximately equally: 49.7% support such a measure, 50.3% do not. The overwhelming majority of the respondents (86.6%) agree that an information campaign to convince people to get vaccinated cannot be called successful.
Read on RBC Pro
Banks will give customers the ability to prohibit the issuance of online loans
VTB and Promsvyazbank are working on introducing functionality into their applications and Internet banks that will allow to remotely restrict the ability to conduct online transactions.
- This function should become one of the ways to protect bank clients from financial fraudsters who use social engineering methods to steal not only funds available in their accounts, but also those received on credit.
- In turn, the Bank of Russia decided to determine the amount of money that banks should return to individual customers who have become victims of fraudsters. Now the owners are returned less than 8% of the stolen goods. The regulator wants to enter the amount of compensation and change the procedure for debiting funds for fraudulent transactions.
FT learned about the EU countries’ distrust of US data on Russia’s plans to “invade” Ukraine
Washington had to share more intelligence than usual with EU allies to convince them that Russia was preparing an “invasion” of Ukraine, as some EU countries initially reacted with suspicion of this information, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. The US began sharing information with its allies in November.
- US President Joe Biden plans on Tuesday, during a videoconference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, to warn him against any “invasion” of Ukraine, the newspaper’s interlocutors said.
- Russia has consistently denied plans to “invade” Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called media reports on this topic “empty, unreasonable escalation of tension.”
What else happened
- It is impossible to completely defeat leukemia, says entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov, who previously said that he was in remission after a bone marrow transplant. He calls his current state “the stage of struggle” and believes that it is important for other people who are faced with oncology to look at “the same” as they are.
- About half of Russians would like to discuss personal and work problems with a psychologist, the hh.ru poll showed. However, 15% use the services of private specialists, while a corporate psychologist is available only to 6% of Russians. Almost a quarter of the respondents admitted that they had no one to discuss the problems with.
- The Russian national team won the Davis Cup for the first time in 15 years: Russian Daniil Medvedev beat Croat Marina Cilic with a score of 7: 6.
.