Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who runs the country's coronavirus task force, said Tuesday that health officials were "optimizing our approaches to quarantine and testing of our citizens, including shortening the quarantine period to seven days."
Anna Popova, the head of Russian public health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said last week that new daily cases might reach six figures. President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has "a couple of weeks" to prepare for the unprecedented wave. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that authorities were not discussing another nationwide lockdown.
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