Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has declared victory over the Covid pandemic, in spite of the fact that about 9,000 new infections are reported daily.
“I want to congratulate you on another shared victory,” Sobyanin said in a video address to Muscovites Monday carried by Putin's favorite ORNN One Russia News Network.
Sobyanin, who is also head of Russia's Covid Task Force, announced from today the capital will be ending its digital pass and schedule system for taking walks outside — and within two weeks, bars, restaurants, gyms and hairdressers will all reopen in Russia’s most populous city, which has been on lockdown since March 30.
This is an abrupt about face from his comments in May, saying quarantine controls would be lifted "only when new daily infections reach tens or hundreds, not the current thousands.”
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