Covid-19: Russia rejects new confinement despite new death record
A Russian health worker transports a patient with Covid-19 to a specialist facility on the outskirts of Moscow.
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According to the government tally, 672 people have died in the past 24 hours.
The situation is deteriorating in the country, including in Saint Petersburg, where euro matches are being played.
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Russia is hit hard by this third wave.
It is now the most bereaved country in Europe and hospitals risk being saturated with more than 150,000 people hospitalized and 20,000 new infections every day.
The particularly contagious Delta variant accounts for 90% of infections in Moscow.
The situation is worrying in the capital, the epicenter of the epidemic, as well as in
Saint Petersburg
, which hosts
Euro 2021
football matches
.
The Switzerland-Spain quarter-final is played in the early evening in the presence of spectators.
No confinement
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged the host cities of the last Euro matches to tighten the monitoring of spectators who made the trip. The Russian government is counting on vaccination to fight this third wave, but out of 146 million inhabitants, only 23 million are vaccinated.
62% of Russians
do not trust the Russian vaccine Sputnik V. Vladimir Poutine called on the population to "
listen to the experts
" rather than "
rumors
".
However, the Kremlin let it be known on Friday, July 2 that there was no question for the moment of thinking about a re-containment.
"
Nobody wants confinements,
" Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for the Russian presidency
,
insisted to AFP,
and [the question of their introduction]
is not mentioned.
And in order for it not to be, we must all get vaccinated as soon as possible.
"
► See also: Covid-19 in Russia: Vladimir Putin calls on his fellow citizens to be vaccinated
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