Moscow records pandemic high for Covid cases second day running

The city plans to expand hospital beds to 24,000 from 17,000 over the next two weeks. Denis Grishkin / Moskva News Agency

Saturday’s record topped the previous day’s total of 9,056 new infections, according to the government’s coronavirus tally, ballooning from 3,000 daily just two weeks ago.The new cases are being driven by the highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India and have threatened to overwhelm Moscow’s hospitals, as officials rush to roll out new beds for Covid patients.

Moscow, the epicentre of Russia’s outbreak, accounted Saturday for more than half of the country’s new cases, which stood at nearly 5.3 million since the start of the pandemic.On Friday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the Delta variant accounted for nearly 90 percent of new cases.

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