“We will consistently ask and convince people from these categories to move around the city as little as possible,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on the air of the Russia 1 TV channel.

Since October 9, due to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus, social cards have been suspended in Moscow so that schoolchildren, the elderly and citizens with chronic diseases stay at home.

At the same time, the Moscow Department of Transport reported that schoolchildren and pensioners over the age of 65 on October 9 tried to go to the metro 12 thousand times.