Vladimir Putin gives Russians a week off to curb the pandemic

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, today gave Russians a week of paid vacation from October 30 to November 7 to stop the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed its lives in the last 24 hours of more than a thousand people, while infections exceed 30,000 daily.

“Now it is especially important to stop the peak of the new wave of the pandemic”Putin said during a telematic meeting with the Government on the health situation in the country.

Putin, which already imposed a similar measure at the beginning of the pandemic, thus supported the proposal presented by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tatiana Golíkova, who admitted that the current measures “are not enough.”

Golíkova even raised with the president the possibility of declaring non-working hours in the regions most affected by the pandemic as of October 23.

Among them, he mentioned several republics of the Caucasus such as Dagestan, in addition to Tatarstan, the Siberian Tomsk or the Kamchatka peninsula.

About, Putin authorized the regional authorities both the declaration of vacation from next Saturday and its extension after November 7.

In addition, he called on the regions not to minimize the magnitude of the covid-19 pandemic in their territories and warned that these manipulations will finally come to light.

“In the current situation this is dangerous and irresponsible,” he warned.

Putin expressed his “perplexity” by the fact that there are Russians with higher education have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Russia Today it again registered a mortality record with 1,028 deaths in the last day.

The total number of deaths from covid-19 stands at 225,353 so far as a pandemic, although official data on excess deaths in the same period tripled that number.

In addition, 34,073 new infections were registered in the 85 regions of the country. Most of the new infections were observed in Moscow (5,847), Saint Petersburg (3,274) and the Moscow region (2,590).

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Russia has identified 8,094,825 cases of coronavirus, making that country the fifth in the world behind the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.