President Vladimir Putin last week ordered a long weekend of paid vacation from this Saturday to Sunday, November 7, with the purpose of breaking the chain of records in both daily cases and deaths.
Russia has been forced to impose strong measures to curb the increase in cases since the end of the brief lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic, despite pinning all its hopes on launching several vaccines of its own, such as Sputnik V.
Despite the fact that several drugs have been available for free for months, only 32.5% of the population has been vaccinated, according to government statistics this Saturday.
The Kremlin indicated earlier this week that epidemiologists had voiced their “concerns” after polls released by news agencies showed that a third of Russians planned to travel during the holiday period.
Regions across the country have imposed some restrictions against COVID-19, but the strictest began to be applied this week in Moscow, the epicenter of the outbreak in Russia, with essential services shut down.
Health authorities have been accused of downplaying the pandemic. The Rosstat statistical agency revealed on Friday that 44,265 people have died in September from covid, almost twice as many as those notified by the Government.
These figures would raise the number of deaths from covid-19 to almost 450,000, the most catastrophic figure in Europe.
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