Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, during a meeting with entrepreneurs in Business.Technograd at VDNKh, proposed creating “coronavirus-free zones” in restaurants.
“Create a COVID-free zone in your restaurant where vaccinated people are,” he said.
According to him, Moscow lost half of its tourists in a year, which has become a problem for trade, services and catering.
“So that there are no further restrictions, you need to protect yourself, for this you have everything,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
In turn, during the meeting, the entrepreneurs proposed not to write out a fine right away, but first to carry out preventive measures, issue a warning and only then to fine.
The Moscow Mayor promised to discuss this with the relevant departments.
Over the past day, 8373 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia, the majority in Moscow (2416) and St. Petersburg (839).
Over the past 24 hours, 9135 people have recovered in the country, 406 patients have died from complications that developed against the background of COVID-19, and concomitant diseases.
The total number of cases of coronavirus registered in Russia reached 5,026,168, 119,600 people have died since the start of the pandemic, 4,642,090 patients have recovered from the disease.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, more than 136.4 million laboratory tests have been carried out in the country for the presence of COVID-19.
The press service of the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region announced the opening of 30 vaccination points in the region, where vaccination can be done at any time of the day and without an appointment, you must have a passport and an OMI policy with you.
“We understand that people have different work schedules.
It is convenient for someone to come to clinics or a shopping center and get vaccinated there, but there are also residents who cannot find time for vaccinations during the day, ”said Svetlana Strigunkova, head of the Moscow Region Ministry of Health.
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In turn, her colleague from Crimea, Alexander Ostapenko, announced the intention of the republican authorities to vaccinate 90% of the region's residents over 60 years old against coronavirus: "Vaccination is especially important for our residents with chronic diseases of the respiratory system, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes."
According to him, about 260 thousand doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been received in Crimea, more than 210 thousand people have already been vaccinated, of which 150 thousand people have given both injections.
As noted by TASS, over 100 stationary vaccination points operate in the region, and the activities of mobile points and mobile teams have also been organized.
In addition, the head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, denied information that mandatory vaccination against coronavirus is being introduced in the republic.
On the eve of the press service of the regional government published a material that spoke about the introduction of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 for certain groups of the population.
In addition, it was reported that in case of an unjustified refusal to vaccinate, an employee of the enterprise may not be allowed to work, and the employer may be fined.
Later the article was edited and the word “mandatory” was changed to “mass”.
“Yesterday, of course, the media turned everything upside down that they would force everyone to be vaccinated, be sure to vaccinate.
We are in favor of mass vaccination, so that people are massively vaccinated, especially in hard-to-reach areas, so that the spread of the disease there does not go further, ”he said.
In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers ordered to allocate about 3.3 billion rubles to Rospotrebnadzor for the production of test systems for detecting COVID-19 and "for conducting fragment and whole genome sequencing."
According to the document, at least 29 million test systems will be produced for the allocated funds and at least 48.1 thousand samples will be taken "from persons with a new coronavirus infection."
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Also, the day before, the government submitted to the State Duma a bill on the introduction of vaccination against coronavirus in the national vaccination calendar.
The explanatory note to the document says that the Ministry of Health considers it necessary to ensure vaccination coverage of at least 60% (69.5 million people) of the country's adult population in order to "confidently control the epidemic process and stabilize the situation with the incidence of new coronavirus infection."
It is noted that the adoption of the legislative initiative will allow the purchase of preventive drugs against COVID-19 at the expense of the federal budget of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade indicated that manufacturers are able to provide the population of Russia with their drugs for coronavirus in the event of an increase in demand.
“Well, this is also a little confidential information, so I limit myself to a short answer: we can. There is also such a story: the fact is that the sites operate depending on the order of the healthcare system and build their capacities depending on the need. We have the capacity, we are able to provide it, ”said the first deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Vasily Osmakov on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station, stressing that at the moment there are no problems with the supply of vaccines to the regions.