Putin decrees a non-working week to stop the advance of Covid-19 in Russia

Putin decrees a non-working week to stop the advance of Covid-19 in Russia

The week already partly coincides with school holidays and only November 1, 2 and 3 were working, if weekends and holidays are taken into account.

Putin, who will not participate in the G20 and COP26 summits due to the epidemiological crisis, He also urged the Russians, very reluctant to vaccination, to “be responsible” and join the immunization campaign.

“There are only two ways out of this pandemic: get sick or get vaccinated,” he said, considering that the low percentage of vaccinated Russian citizens was “dangerous.”

Putin also urged to speed up diagnostic tests and strengthen isolation measures for people who have had contact with the sick.

The president also mentioned the possibility of starting earlier or extending the vacation week, if the health situation requires it.

Since June, Russia has suffered a wave of the pandemic, due to the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, and the situation worsened for a month, due to the slowness in vaccination and the lack of sanitary restrictions.

Russia added a new record of deaths linked to the coronavirus in 24 hours. In the last day, 1,028 deaths were reported, while infections reached 34,073.

On Moscow, the authorities ordered on Tuesday the mandatory vaccination of 80% of public service employees, against the current 60%, by January 1, 2022, the confinement of those over 60 years not vaccinated from October 25 to 25 February and that “at least 30%” of the workforce of companies is teleworking.

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