Moscow authorities called the lockdown a "last resort"

According to the vice-mayor, it was precisely for the sake of preventing strict sanitary measures that QR codes and a social monitoring system were introduced in the city.

Deputy Moscow Mayor for Social Development Anastasia Rakova said that the city authorities will try to do everything to prevent the introduction of a lockdown in the city.

“The lockdown is the last measure to be implemented by the Moscow government. We will do our best not to announce a lockdown. And so everyone’s “favorite” QR codes and a social monitoring system are what we are doing in order to prevent a lockdown,” Rakova said at the Moscow Urban Forum.

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On June 23, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Mayor Alexei Nemeryuk said that against the backdrop of the spread of the Indian strain of coronavirus, Moscow “will continue to jump from lockdown to lockdown until collective immunity is formed.”

On the same day, Nemeryuk said that there were no plans to return to strict sanitary measures in Moscow. So he commented on the words of a Forbes source that the city authorities had been discussing the introduction of a lockdown for those who had not been vaccinated since June 20.

The Kremlin said there was no information about new restrictions on COVID Politics

President Vladimir Putin during a direct line said that an alternative to severe restrictions is the mandatory vaccination of certain groups of the population, which was introduced in a number of Russian regions.

The regime of general self-isolation in connection with the coronavirus pandemic in Russia was announced at the end of March 2020. It lasted almost a month and a half and ended after the May holidays. In some regions, restrictions continued to apply until June. During the lockdown, residents were prohibited from going outside, except for nearby grocery stores, pharmacies, as well as visiting hospitals and walking pets.

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