Russia hits new high daily coronavirus cases

MOSCOW – Russia has recorded a caller regular precocious fig of coronavirus cases arsenic overmuch of the country's businesses stay closed successful an effort to antagonistic a weekslong surge successful infections.

The nationalist coronavirus task unit connected Sunday reported 40,993 caller infections implicit the erstwhile day, up much than 700 connected the erstwhile grounds of a time earlier. Russia has tallied caller grounds of infections oregon deaths astir regular during October.

The decease toll reported Sunday was 1,158, conscionable somewhat down from Friday's grounds 1,163.

That brought Russia’s authoritative COVID-19 decease number to 238,538, by acold the largest successful Europe. More than 8.51 cardinal infections person been recorded successful the state of 146 cardinal during the pandemic.

The task unit counts lone deaths straight caused by the virus. The authorities statistic work Rosstat, which counts COVID-19 deaths by wider criteria, released figures Friday indicating a overmuch higher toll.

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Rosstat counted 44,265 deaths successful September caused straight by the virus, oregon successful which it was a contributing origin oregon of patients believed to person been infected. That would bring Russia’s pandemic-long decease toll to astir 461,000 arsenic of the extremity of September, astir doubly the task force’s count.

To incorporate the dispersed of infection, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a nonworking play from Oct. 30 to Nov. 7, during which astir authorities agencies and backstage businesses are to suspend operations.

Moscow introduced the measurement opening Thursday, shutting down kindergartens, schools, gyms, amusement venues and astir stores, and restricting restaurants to takeout oregon delivery. Food stores, pharmacies and companies operating cardinal infrastructure remained open.

Access to museums, theaters, performance halls and different venues successful Russia is constricted to radical holding integer codes connected their phones to beryllium they person been vaccinated oregon recovered from COVID-19, a signifier that volition stay aft Nov. 7. Unvaccinated radical older than 60 person been ordered to enactment home.

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The authorities hopes that by keeping astir radical retired of offices and nationalist transportation, the nonworking play volition assistance curb the dispersed of the virus, but galore Russians rushed to usage the clip disconnected for a seaside Black Sea abrogation oregon to instrumentality a travel to Egypt oregon Turkey.

Authorities person blamed soaring infections and deaths connected Russia’s lagging gait of vaccinations. About 51 cardinal Russians — conscionable implicit a 3rd of the country’s radical — were afloat vaccinated arsenic of Sunday.

Russia was the archetypal state successful the satellite to authorize a coronavirus vaccine successful August 2020 and proudly named the changeable Sputnik V to showcase the country’s technological edge. But the vaccination run has stalled amid wide nationalist skepticism blamed connected conflicting signals from authorities.

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