“Payments for compliance with the isolation regime have already been transferred to 1.6 million Muscovites over 65 years old. They get them to the same account where pension and other social payments usually come, ”TASS quoted Rakova as saying.

Earlier it was reported that material support in the amount of 4 thousand rubles will be paid to Moscow pensioners who are at home on self-isolation as support and compensation for additional expenses.

On March 25, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that in the capital, reduced fare for students and older people was temporarily canceled due to the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19.