MOSCOW IN CONTINGENCY MODE
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin yesterday ordered the closure of all non-essential services in the capital city between Oct. 28 and Nov. 7 to curb the spread of Covid infections as virus deaths soared.
“During this period the work of all [these] organisations on the territory of the city of Moscow must stop,” Sobyanin said as Russia reported a record 1,036 deaths in a single day yesterday.
Sobyanin said all non-essential retail and venues of sport and entertainment must close. Shops selling food, medicine and other essential products will remain open. Restaurants and cafés will be able to sell takeaway food, the statement read. Mass events will be banned and schools will be closed, with the days off coinciding with national school holidays.
Yesterday’s fatalities brought the country’s official death toll from the disease to 227,389.