Moscow authorities will not introduce a lockdown due to "omicron"

No lockdowns or closures

In Moscow, against the background of the spread of the Omicron strain, a lockdown will not be introduced, the current measures are quite enough, two sources close to the city authorities told RBC. According to one of them, when deciding on new restrictive measures due to covid-19 , the city hall pays attention to the number of hospitalizations. By January 27, this figure in the capital reached 1.4 thousand people per day. According to the source, additional measures will not be considered if the figure does not grow to at least 3-4 thousand per day.

RBC's interlocutor recalled that during the spread of the Delta strain, the proportion of hospitalizations in relation to the number of cases daily reached 20%. Now this figure is about 5.5%. There are about 7 thousand beds available in the city (42% of the deployed bed fund), he specified.

The interlocutor of RBC explains the rejection of the lockdown by its negative consequences for business and the labor market. “And the transfer of the educational process to a long distance mode also does not help reduce the incidence, since schoolchildren and students, due to their age and behavior, are irresponsible in observing the prescribed restrictions.”