In Moscow, the elderly will unblock transport cards

Sobyanin instructed to unblock travel cards for the elderly and people with chronic diseases. In Moscow, the number of daily new patients with COVID-19 is “steadily” declining, the number of hospitalizations fell by half in a month

From February 28, all Muscovites over 60 years old or with chronic diseases will be unblocked transport cards, which were previously suspended due to the spread of coronavirus. This was announced by the mayor of the city Sergei Sobyanin in his blog.

“In Moscow, a steady decline in the incidence of “omicron” continues. Compared to the peak at the end of January, the number of new cases of covid has decreased by more than three times. The number of hospitalizations has halved, including for children by 80%," Sobyanin explained.

He added that polyclinics and hospitals are returning to work as usual and increasing the scheduled admission of patients. In addition, the mayor of Moscow continued, the requirement to transfer 30% of employees to a remote work format is becoming a recommendation.

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A number of coronavirus restrictions are still in place in Moscow: visitors to theaters and museums must have a QR code and occupy no more than 70% of the seats; 80% of service industry and city employees must be vaccinated; masks must be worn on public transport.

The easing of restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus was allowed three days earlier by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, pointing out the features of the omicron strain. According to her, the previously taken measures were proposed in other epidemiological conditions. “And today we can talk <...> about softening a number of methodological recommendations when a period of, so to speak, epidemiological remission [in Russia] sets in,” Popova said. According to her, restrictions can be relaxed in museums, fitness centers, theaters and catering establishments, but only in those cases when it comes to the spread of the omicron strain.

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Over the past 24 hours, 3.3 thousand people have fallen ill in Moscow, 543 patients have been hospitalized, 84 previously ill people have died, the operational headquarters said earlier. The number of people delivered to hospitals in the capital has been declining over the past two weeks - for example, on February 10, 1.3 thousand people were hospitalized, on February 15 - 1.1 thousand, on February 20 - 699 people.

Across Russia over the past day, 123.4 thousand people fell ill, 14.9 thousand people were hospitalized, 787 people died. Compared to the day before, the number of cases decreased by 7.2% - 9.5 thousand people. A sharp drop in the number of new patients occurred along with a noticeable reduction in the number of tests for infection - over the past day, 429,000 tests were done in Russia, and 532,000 a day earlier.