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Moscow is easing up lockdown restrictions

Credit: kremlin.ru

Vladimir Putin held a videoconference with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to discuss the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Moscow, presidential web page reports and cites him as saying, “The situation in Moscow, as well as in the country as a whole, is stabilizing.”

According to the Mayor, “Nearly all manufacturing facilities resumed operation in Moscow on May 12. The number of working enterprises increased from 366 on May 12 to over 700 today; they make up the backbone of the Moscow economy. Some 150 construction projects never stopped, including metro, railway and medical construction projects. Over a thousand construction projects have resumed now.” “From May 12 to the present day,” he said, “the number of seriously ill hospitalized patients went down by 40%, the number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients has declined by more than 40%.” Moscow authorities decided therefore to open “food and non-food retail starting June 1 and re-open some of the everyday services such as laundries, dry cleaners and repair services.”

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