Despite tightened restrictions in recent weeks, Russian authorities are failing to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
With the rise of the Delta variant, Moscow even records successive death records.
The Russian capital again reached a peak in the number of deaths due to Covid-19 on Sunday with 144 deaths recorded in 24 hours, a level unprecedented since the start of the pandemic.
As of Friday, the record fell with 98 dead.
And this despite the gradual introduction of restrictive measures such as the return to compulsory teleworking for some employees and the compulsory vaccination of employees in the service sector.
A health pass is also required to go to a restaurant in the capital from this Monday.
General containment is not envisaged
Muscovites will have to download from the city's Internet portal a QR code confirming either their vaccination, or that they have been infected with the coronavirus in the last six months, or that they have a PCR test of less than three days, the mayor Sergei Sobyanin explained a few days ago.
General confinement, as in spring 2020, is however not envisaged for the moment in this city of more than 12 million inhabitants.
Russia is, with 130,347 deaths recorded by the government, the most bereaved European country.
The statistics agency Rosstat, which has a broader definition of deaths linked to Covid-19, recorded some 270,000 deaths at the end of April.
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