Moscow eases resctirctions as Russia reports new record daily COVID-19 deaths

Record ID: 1627077

  • Title: Moscow eases resctirctions as Russia reports new record daily COVID-19 deaths
  • Date: 16th July 2021
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 16, 2021) (REUTERS) KREMLIN
  • Embargoed: 30th July 2021 11:58
  • Keywords: COVID-19 Moscow Russia coronavirus health hospital
  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Europe,Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA003EM3CD3B
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Moscow residents will no longer have to present a QR code demonstrating they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or have immunity in order to sit inside cafes, restaurants, and bars from Monday, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Friday (July 16).
    Since June 28, Muscovites have had to present a QR code that proves they have had a vaccine, a negative test, or immunity to being able to sit inside, but outdoor terraces remained open to all.
    Sobyanin, speaking on state television, said the rate of vaccination had sped up in the capital and that the restriction could therefore be relaxed.
    More than 2 million Moscow residents were now fully vaccinated and 3.8 million got the first jab, Sobyanin said.
    Russia on Friday reported 799 coronavirus-related deaths, the most in a single day since the pandemic began and the fourth day in a row it has set a record.
    Russia is in the grip of a surge in cases that authorities have blamed on the contagious Delta variant and the slow rate of vaccinations. The coronavirus task force confirmed 25,704 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours.
    It said the official national COVID-19 case tally now stood at 5,907,999. It said the national death toll had risen to 146,868.
    The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and said Russia recorded around 290,000 deaths related to COVID-19 from April 2020 to May 2021.
    (Production: Alexander Resehtnikov, Mikhail Antonov, Tatiana Gomozova)
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