With low immunization rates and suspicion towards the government:
The Russian capital is expected to enter a closure on October 28, for the first time since June 2020, amid high morbidity and a record number of over a thousand deaths in the last day as a result of the virus.
The mayor, Sergei Sobyanin and the authorities in the country, announced today (Thursday) that the city of Moscow and the province, will enter a one-week closure and only vital places will be open, including pharmacies and supermarkets.
The measures come in an attempt to flatten the curve of the deadly wave of morbidity in the country.
Currently schools will remain closed as well.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin last night ordered a general closure in the country that will apply from October 30 to November 7, a date on which the closure in the Moscow region is also expected to end.
Vaccines in Moscow, archive, Photo: EPI
"I support some of the steps but people do not respect them. I ride the metro and there are a lot of people without masks. Our esteemed mayor talks about it a lot but there is no actual supervision," Vladimir, a resident of Moscow, told Reuters.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the difficulties surrounding the approval of the Russian vaccine in the European Union, saying: "There are indeed technological disagreements over the volume of documents and information provided to register our vaccine by the European Agency. We are working on it and expect it to be soon. Ours will soon receive the registration he should have received. "
Meanwhile, a difficult week passed for the superpower with a daily average that crossed the 30,000 infected and an increasing mortality rate.
To date, more than 237,000 people have died since the outbreak, while the number of vaccines in both doses has remained relatively low, hovering around 33%, despite the fact that vaccines made in Russia are available to the general population.
This is a particularly low immunization rate compared to Western countries and is mainly due to public suspicion of the vaccine.
