06/20/2021 18:00
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/20/2021 6:00 PM
Employees who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in regions where it is mandatory
may be fired without pay
, the Russian Labor Minister announced.
"If the health authorities of a region make vaccination mandatory for certain categories of workers,
an unvaccinated employee may be suspended
," Anton Kotiakov told Russian media on Saturday, in comments reproduced on Sunday by the government monitoring Telegram channel. of the pandemic.
According to the minister,
the suspension would last
as long as the mandatory vaccination decree is valid.
Faced with the increase in cases, the city of Moscow and its region were the first in Russia to make vaccination mandatory
for employees in the service sector.
Since then, seven other local entities, including St. Petersburg and its region, have
taken similar measures
, according to Russian media.
Few people with chinstraps or little social distance in Moscow.
AFP photo
After two consecutive days of record infections,
Moscow registered a slight decline on Sunday
, with 8,305 cases in 24 hours, a figure that is still much higher than two weeks ago, when there were about 3,000 cases a day.
According to the authorities, this outbreak is due to the Delta variant, which appeared in India, and which
affects almost 90% of new patients,
according to Mayor Sergei Sobianin.
The number of new cases in St. Petersburg
surpassed 1,000 in 24 hours
for the first time since late February.
At the national level,
the country registered 17,611 new cases.
The outbreak was favored by
a slow vaccination campaign
due to the distrust of Russians, the absence of restrictions for months and the failure to comply with the rules of distancing and wearing a mask.
President Vladimir Putin
called for an increase in the rate of vaccination
in the country and warned that public employees who refuse to be vaccinated could be fired.
After two consecutive days of record infections, Moscow registered a decline on Sunday, with 8,305 cases in 24 hours, a figure that is still much higher than two weeks ago,
when there were about 3,000 cases a day.
They also maintain that the outbreak was favored by a slow vaccination campaign due to
the distrust of Russians,
the absence of restrictions for months and the failure to comply with the rules of distancing and the use of masks.
"Today our mission is to channel all efforts and resources to protect our citizens from the coronavirus and its consequences. First of all, we need to intensify the vaccination campaign and
we have everything we need to do so
," the president said in a message to the country's doctors celebrating Health Worker's Day, the Sputnik news agency reported.
Russia, Putin added,
has four vaccines of its own
against the coronavirus and continues to develop others.
The immunization campaign
began on December 5, 2020
with the Sputnik V vaccine developed by the Nikolai Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, and subsequently the other three compounds began to be used.
With a population of more than 146 million,
to date 16.1 million citizens
have been fully immunized, according to reports from Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Gólikova.
The accumulated total of infections since the beginning of the pandemic amounted to 5.31 million and the total number of deaths from Covid-19 in Russia
rose to 129,361.
Source: AFP and EFE
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