Its mayor Moscow declared a public holiday virtually throughout the coming week to combat a COVID-19 infection launch.
Sergei Sobyanin announced the decision today, saying it would not affect the Russian capital’s infrastructure maintenance agencies, the army and other strategically important companies.
Monday, June 14, is a public holiday anyway and the mayor told citizens not to go to work even on other days of the week.
“In order to stop the growing rate of disease and save lives, I signed an ordinance today that provides for public holidays from June 15 to 19, 2021 with pay for employees,” Sobyanin said on his official blog.
Sobyanin also ordered all bars, restaurants and event venues closed by 11 p.m. in the city until June 20.
Today, the Russia announced 13,510 new COVID-19-positive diagnoses in the past 24 hours, the largest daily score since early February. Of these, 6,701 were recorded in Moscow, the highest in the city so far this year.
The mayor also called on the elderly residents to stay in their homes and the townspeople to be vaccinated as soon as possible.
Although vaccines have been widely available in the capital since January, when Russia launched its national immunization program, vaccinations have been slow.
Last month, Sobyanin criticized low vaccination rates, calling it “remarkable” that hospitals in the capital are being filled with COVID-19 patients at a time when vaccines are widely available.
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