- Title: Moscow streets crowded despite increasing COVID-19 cases
- Date: 17th July 2021
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 17, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KREMLIN SEEN OVER RIVER VARIOUS OF CATHEDRAL INSIDE THE KREMLIN PEOPLE WALKING ON EMBANKMENT VARIOUS OF BOATS NEAR KREMLIN PEOPLE POSING FOR PICTURES IN STREET VARIOUS OF PEOPLE IN STREET SIGN ON CAFE DOOR READING (Russian): 'VACCINATE YOURSELF! PROTECT YOURSELF AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU' CAFE ENTRANCE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE IN STREET MAN AND WOMAN KISSING NEAR AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT TABLES OUTSIDE THE CAFE (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, ALEKSANDRA TSYBUTSYNINA, SAYING: "I think they (authorities) are using all possible ways to make people get vaccinated, one day you can win a car, the other day they are imposing QR codes. PEOPLE OUTSIDE CAFE PEOPLE ON BENCH (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, LARISA AKHROMEYEVA, SAYING: "(Under the quarantine restrictions) you are entering (a mall), it is quiet and empty there. I don't know about the shop owners, but for the visitors it is convenient." MAN EATING ON A BENCH (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, VLADIMIR AKHMANUYLOV, SAYING: "This (eased restrictions) the spread of the infection has decreased, there are fewer sick people now, (Moscow Mayor Sergei) Sobyanin says. I think this data is partially faked. It is done so we feel well. (QUESTION OFF-CAMERA: WHY FAKE IT?) They are looking back at the world and Europe in particular, if their statistics go down, ours should show that too." (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, SVETLANA, SAYING: "What kind of an effect we can expect (from the vaccination promotion measures) if we have no alternatives? We do not have access to foreign vaccines. What is the point of this QR code? Give people freedom." PEOPLE IN STREET
- Embargoed: 31st July 2021 14:18
- Keywords: Covid-19 Russia coronavirus vaccination qr codes
- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Europe,Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA001EM8B4NB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Moscow residents flocked to the city center on Saturday (July 17) to enjoy a hot summer weekend despite the growing numbers of people infected with COVID-19.
Russia reported 25,116 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 4,561 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,933,115.
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 government coronavirus task force said 787 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 147,655.
The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 290,000 deaths related to COVID-19 from April 2020 to May 2021.
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