He said that "the representatives of these establishments themselves approached us, realizing that they are the first in line to be closed."

“To prevent this from happening, make a control at the entrance to nightclubs so that we can see which of these people subsequently became infected,” Sobyanin said.

“And in case of infection of a person, you can very quickly find others who were in contact with this person that day, diagnose them,” the mayor added.

Earlier, Sobyanin said that a telephone number registration system would be introduced in nightlife venues in Moscow as part of the fight against the spread of coronavirus.

The virologist, Professor Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with FAN, assessed the situation with COVID-19.