Vladimir Putin held a video conference on Monday with experts in countering epidemics, leading virologists, infectious disease specialists, as well as heads of research centers, on the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Russia, presidential web page reports.
“The peak of morbidity is still ahead and now we must do everything to flatten the peak when the highest number of new cases is recorded,” he said. “We will be guided by the most important thing, the protection of the lives and health of people, and we will use expert opinions when introducing the safest ways to operate industries, enterprises and companies. We will act very carefully because we understand that it is impossible to stop the economy completely. But we need to minimize the negative impact on the employment and incomes of citizens.”
As Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted, “Over the past 24 hours, the increase in cases was 12%. The increase in Moscow was 8.3%, although Moscow has the highest number of cases, as of today: 26,350; the increase in Moscow Region is 12.4%. The average number of registered cases is 32.1 per 100,000.”