Paid vacation for employees in Russia to contain Corona

Restrictions aimed at containing the Corona virus came into effect across Russia on Saturday, at a time when the authorities are seeking to limit the high number of infections and deaths in the country that records the highest number of deaths from the epidemic in Europe.

On Saturday, the government announced 40,251 new infections with the virus, the highest daily toll since the epidemic appeared.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered paid leave to employees from Saturday until November 7, in an effort to reduce the number of injuries and record deaths recorded daily.

Russia has refrained from imposing strict measures at the country level since the end of a short closure imposed at the beginning of the epidemic, while it hoped that the launch of a number of locally developed vaccines would contribute to limiting the outbreak of the epidemic.

But despite the availability of vaccines for months, only 32.5% of the entire population was vaccinated, according to statistics published by the government on Saturday.

The Kremlin announced this week that epidemiologists expressed "concern" after surveys published by news agencies revealed that a third of Russians were considering travel during the holiday season.

Some restrictions were imposed to contain the virus across the country, but the most stringent ones were imposed this week in Moscow, the epicenter of the virus in Russia, where non-essential services were closed.

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