{"id":142960,"date":"2021-10-28T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=142960"},"modified":"2021-10-28T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:31:43","slug":"moscow-embarks-on-sweeping-lockdown-as-covid-19-deaths-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/moscow-embarks-on-sweeping-lockdown-as-covid-19-deaths-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow embarks on sweeping lockdown as COVID-19 deaths surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: People receive a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a vaccination centre in the State Department Store, GUM, in Moscow, Russia October 26, 2021.  REUTERS\/Evgenia Novozhenina<\/figcaption><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) &#8211; The Russian capital brought in its strictest lockdown measures since June 2020 on Thursday as hospitals confront a rising wave of coronavirus cases that has sent one-day pandemic deaths to record highs.<\/p>\n<p>The partial lockdown, in which only essential shops like pharmacies and supermarkets are allowed to remain open, while schools and state kindergartens are shut, comes ahead of a nationwide week-long workplace shutdown from Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Like Moscow, some regions decided to kick off their partial lockdowns on Thursday or earlier, ahead of the nationwide initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow\u2019s residents are allowed to leave their homes freely unlike the lockdown of summer 2020, but the new measures point to rising concern among officials over record numbers of deaths that the Kremlin has blamed on the slow vaccination rate.<\/p>\n<p>Many Russians have decided that now is an ideal time to fly off for a foreign beach holiday instead of hunkering down at home.<\/p>\n<p>There were mixed feelings about the lockdown on the streets of Moscow on Thursday. Some residents like Lyubov Machekhina said they thought it would obviously help slow infections.<\/p>\n<p>Others like Mikhail, a Muscovite who did not give his surname, voiced doubts that there would be any real impact without a larger chunk of the population being vaccinated or having other immunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, it will change nothing. Perhaps, it will slow down (the spread of cases) a bit, but in fact, without herd immunity &#8211; it\u2019s nonsense. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019ll work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-russia\/moscow-embarks-on-sweeping-lockdown-as-covid-19-deaths-surge-idUSKBN2HI0Y2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: People receive a vaccine against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23054],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moscow embarks on sweeping lockdown as COVID-19 deaths surge - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/moscow-embarks-on-sweeping-lockdown-as-covid-19-deaths-surge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moscow embarks on sweeping lockdown as COVID-19 deaths surge - 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