Moscow records pandemic-high COVID-19 cases for second day running

MOSCOW: Russia's capital Moscow on Saturday reported a pandemic high for new coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day, as the city's hospitals are flooded with new patients due to the Delta variant.

Having claimed the worst of the pandemic had passed over winter, officials are now scurrying to reintroduce pandemic restrictions and roll out new beds dedicated to coronavirus patients after months of near-normal life.On Monday, Saint Petersburg announced a tightening of restrictions including no food sales in its Euro 2020 fan zones.

Sobyanin, who has taken a leading role in Russia's response to the pandemic, has said the measures are necessary because the capital's hospitals were inundated with COVID-19 patients within days.On Thursday, he said that in just five days 13,000 free hospital beds had been"eaten up" and that the city has since expanded to 17,000 beds.

While Russia imposed a national lockdown when COVID-19 first began spreading last spring, authorities have not reintroduced the measure since lifting it last summer in the hopes of buttressing a struggling economy. Russia is among the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, with the sixth-highest number of cases in the world, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

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