(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Mayor of Moscow: Restrictions related to epidemic prevention will continue until after vaccine development
China News Agency, Moscow, May 28 (Reporter Wang Xiujun) Moscow Mayor Sobyanin said on the 28th that the restrictions imposed by Moscow on epidemic prevention will continue until the vaccine is developed.
Sobyanin said that the self-protection system and health restrictions will exist for a long time until after the vaccine is developed. He emphasized that there are currently more than 2,000 new coronavirus infections in Moscow every day. Although the number of hospitalizations has declined, there are still hundreds of people hospitalized every day. The epidemic in Moscow is not so optimistic, so (release measures) should not "run to the front."
Sobyanin also said that this does not mean that we "have to close our lives." Moscow has begun a transition to normal life.
Nimeluk, head of the Moscow Ministry of Trade and Services, said on the same day that Moscow was not yet ready to cancel the pass system to and from Moscow. If canceled now, the Moscow epidemic will surge. We do not want to repeat the mistakes of some countries.
On that day, the Moscow City Government announced the timetable for residents to go for a walk. According to the timetable, Moscow residents can go out for a walk three times a week within two kilometers of their place of residence, but they still need to respect the social distance and wear masks.
On the 27th, Sobyanin announced that he would extend the epidemic-restrictive measures such as Moscow's home isolation policy and digital pass to June 14. At the same time, all non-food transactions and some service industries in Moscow can be opened for operation.
According to the news of the Russian New Crown Virus Epidemic Prevention Command on the 28th, in the past 24 hours, Russia has added 8,371 newly diagnosed cases of the new crown, with a total of 379,051 cases diagnosed. Moscow is the region with the worst epidemic in Russia, and the cumulative number of infected people has reached 173,497.
World Health Organization representative in Russia Vunovich revealed on the 28th that Russia has proposed eight new coronavirus candidate vaccines to WHO. The director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of Russia ’s “Gamalya” said that Russia plans to conduct clinical trials of the vaccine in June. (Finish)