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Moscow mayor warns of increasing infection rate from new strain of coronavirus

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EXCERPTS: Moscow is facing a new coronavirus variant that is more aggressive and infectious, and the situation in the city is rapidly deteriorating, its mayor said on Thursday.

[...] "A new mutation has arrived, a new strain is active. It's more aggressive, it's harder to recover from, it spreads faster. It's much more likely to penetrate a person's immune system," Sobyanin said, according to the RIA news agency.

[...] In separate comments at a government meeting broadcast on television, Sobyanin said the city was rapidly increasing its number of hospital beds to treat a possible influx of Covid-19 patients. There are currently enough beds available, he said.

"This dynamic is fairly unexpected given that more than 60 percent of Muscovites have either already been ill or been vaccinated - it is a large segment of the population... We of course did not expect an increase (in cases), but a decrease," Sobyanin said.

The head of the consumer health watchdog, who was also at the meeting, said the number of coronavirus cases attributed to the Delta variant, which was first identified in India, was rising significantly across the country.

[...] "We are very close to stricter decisions - temporary but stricter - in terms of restrictions," Sobyanin said at the meeting with restaurant business representatives.

The Kremlin has expressed dismay over the slow progress in Russia's vaccination programme despite Russia making its Sputnik shot widely available to people in Moscow in December. Moscow authorities on Wednesday ordered workers with public facing roles to get vaccinated against COVID-19... (MORE - details)
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