Moscow again reached a peak in the number of deaths due to Covid-19 on Sunday with 144 deaths recorded in 24 hours, a level unprecedented since the start of the pandemic. As of Friday, the record fell with 98 dead.
And this despite the gradual introduction of restrictive measures such as the return to compulsory teleworking for some employees and the compulsory vaccination of employees in the service sector. A health pass is also required to go to a restaurant in the capital from Monday.
Muscovites will have to download from the city’s internet portal a QR Code confirming either their vaccination, or that they have been infected with the coronavirus in the last six months, or that they have a PCR test of less than three days, the mayor Sergei Sobyanin explained a few days ago.
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General confinement, as in spring 2020, is however not envisaged for the moment in this city of more than 12 million inhabitants.
Russia is, with 130,347 deaths recorded by the government, the most bereaved European country. The statistics agency Rosstat, which has a broader definition of deaths linked to Covid-19, recorded some 270,000 deaths at the end of April.
Identified for the first time in India, the more contagious Delta variant is now present in at least 85 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), raising fears, despite vaccination campaigns, of new waves of the disease. pandemic.
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It has forced some countries to review their strategies with strengthened anti-coronavirus measures and / or the postponement of the lifting of restrictions. Latest: South Africa (1.9 million infections, including 59,900 deaths).
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday new restrictions in the country, the most affected on the continent, to cope with the sharp rise in contamination attributed as elsewhere to the Delta variant.
“We are facing a devastating wave that everything indicates it will be worse than the previous ones“, he stressed, announcing the ban on”all gatherings – whether indoor or outdoor“, except for funerals but with a maximum of 50 people who can attend.
Alcohol sales are now banned, the curfew has been extended by one hour (from 9:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.) and schools will close by Friday.
Conversely, Italy is continuing its easing momentum.
The curfew must in particular be lifted on Monday in the Aosta Valley, the last Italian region where it was still in force and masks will no longer be compulsory outdoors, except in crowded places.
More “the battle is not yet won“, noted Friday the Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, referring to the more contagious variants of the virus in particular the Delta.
The first country in Europe to have experienced an outbreak of Covid-19 contagion in the first quarter of 2020, Italy is one of the countries most seriously affected by the pandemic, with more than 4.25 million infections and 127,418 deaths , of which 56 during the last 24 hours.
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The pandemic has killed at least 3,919,801 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Sunday at 10:00 GMT. The United States is the country most affected both in terms of death toll (603,966) and cases (33,624,776) on Sunday evening.
