“Unfortunately, many of our residents have switched from public transport to private ... people feel more secure on personal transport, and we’ll be healthy today,” Interfax quotes him. 

Sobyanin added that the refusal of many residents to leave has also affected the growth of personal transport on the roads of Moscow.

At the same time, the mayor of the capital expressed the hope that "this is a temporary story."

Earlier it was reported that in September the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro line will conduct an experiment to reduce the cost of travel in the morning off-peak hours.

Inna Samsonova, deputy chief physician for medical services at City Clinical Hospital No. 52, commented on the removal of a number of restrictive measures in Moscow in an interview with NSN.