Authorities apply curfews and confinements again to avoid more infections.
Russia is currently one of the countries with the highest outbreaks of coronavirus, which is why the Government has already announced a curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., in addition to banning hotel and catering events. While the capital, Moscow, will have a lockdown between October 28 and November 7; and the most vulnerable people were asked to stay home until February.
The country’s authorities reported that this Wednesday there was another record of deaths from COVID-19, with 1,123 deaths. It is the ninth consecutive day above a thousand deaths from coronavirus.
The highest number of deaths in the last day was registered in Moscow (91), followed by Saint Petersburg (74) and the Krasnodar Territory (42).
In total, 233,898 deaths from the infectious disease have been reported in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, although official figures on excess deaths in the same period tripled this number.
Measured over 28 days, Russia is the second country with the most accumulated deaths in that period (26,727), behind only the United States (45,292), according to the interactive map of Johns Hopkins University.
In addition, Russia has been registering more than 30,000 daily cases for two consecutive weeks.
In the last day, it added 36,582 new infections in the 85 regions of the country, of which 3,055 or 8.3% have been detected in asymptomatic patients.
In Moscow, 5,789 infections were added to the balance, followed by Saint Petersburg (2,913) and the Moscow region (2,670).
In contrast, 29,151 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours.
In total, 8,352,601 cases of COVID-19 have been reported nationwide since the start of the pandemic, making Russia the fifth-most contagious country in the world behind the US, India. , Brazil and the United Kingdom.
The Kremlin refuses to order a national lockdown to preserve the economy.
Given the complicated evolution of the epidemic situation, partly due to the aggressiveness of the delta variant and the low vaccination rates – only 32.2% of the population has received the full schedule – Moscow begins tomorrow eleven days of paid vacations for workers and the closure of non-essential services.
Two days later, this mandatory vacation measure will be applied throughout the country, coinciding with the November bridge, by decree of the president, Vladimir Putin.
The deputy prime minister and person in charge of the fight against the pandemic, Tatiana Gólikova, today expressed her hope that non-working days will not be extended if restrictions are met, vaccination is increased and employees over 60 years old are transferred to the telework if they have not received the complete guideline.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities are also investigating a group of St. Petersburg health workers who are accused of having sold false COVID-19 vaccination certificates in the midst of the epidemic wave.
Global cases of COVID-19 increased by 4% last week after almost two months of declines, mainly due to new waves of infections in European countries, such as the United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey or Ukraine, reported the World Organization of the Health (WHO).
The world did not register an increase in the number of coronavirus cases since the week between August 23 and 29. (I)
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