The situation is not improving in Russia.
Moscow announced on Sunday a record number of deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
According to official data, the capital has recorded 144 deaths, the worst death toll for a Russian city since the start of the pandemic.
The day before, it is the second city of the country, Saint Petersburg, which had posted a record of the number of deaths with 107 new deaths.
Across the country, 20,538 new people were infected and 599 people died in 24 hours, out of a total of 133,282 dead, according to official figures from this Sunday.
According to the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, nearly 2,000 people are hospitalized every day because of Covid-19 in the capital.
“We have mobilized 20,000 beds, 14,000 of which are currently occupied.
It's a lot, ”he noted on television on Saturday evening.
Russia, one of the countries hardest hit in the world by the pandemic, has been hit hard in recent weeks by the Delta variant, more contagious and which worries all over the world.
Saint Petersburg, epicenter and host city of the Euro
Moscow has also reintroduced, in recent weeks, restrictive measures such as the return of compulsory teleworking for some employees, compulsory vaccination of employees in the service sector or the creation of a health pass to go to restaurants. .
General confinement, as in spring 2020, is however not envisaged for the moment in the city of more than 12 million inhabitants.
Ситуация с заболеваемостью ковидом остается очень сложной.
Мы должны найти решения, которые позволят максимально защитить людей и позволят работататикии.
Сегодня я подписал указ о новых мерах защиты от распространения # covid19.
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- Сергей Собянин (@MosSobyanin) June 22, 2021
Apart from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, currently the host city of Euro football matches, is also one of the epicenters of the epidemic.
There is still one game to go in the city, one of the quarter-finals next Friday.
This Sunday, the country's second city recorded 1,298 new cases and 106 deaths.
The vaccination campaign is struggling to take off in Russia due to widespread public mistrust and despite repeated calls from President Vladimir Putin.
Some regions in the center of the country are also facing a shortage of doses.
Only 21.2 million people out of 146 million inhabitants have received at least one injection, according to Friday figures released by the Gogov site, which aggregates data from regions and media for lack of official national statistics.
