Moscow mayor orders all residents to stay at home

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https://www.france24.com/en/20200329-moscow-mayor-orders-all-residents-to-stay-at-home

Moscow mayor orders all residents to stay at home
Issued on: 29/03/2020 - 21:28

Moscow (AFP) - Moscow's mayor announced strict isolation rules for the city from Monday, the latest in a series of measures introduced in Russia to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

The new restrictions would apply to all the city's residents, regardless of age, mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement Sunday.

"The extremely negative turn of events that we see in the largest cities in Europe and the USA causes great concern for the life and health of our citizens," Sobyanin said introducing the new rules.

Residents of the capital will only be allowed to leave their homes in the case of a medical emergency, to travel to jobs judged essential by the authorities, and shop for food or medicines, the statement read.

People will be allowed to take out trash and walk their dogs within a 100-metre radius of their homes, Sunday's order said.

Muscovites exempt from the rules would be issued with a special pass by city authorities in the coming days, Sobyanin added.

The new isolation rules would be policed by a "smart system of monitoring compliance," in what appeared to be a reference to a vast system of facial-recognition cameras in Moscow.

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. In two to four weeks, Moscow will look like NYC.

They're way too late for this kind of action. If they're worried about an uptick in sickness right now, it means that the virus has infected many times the number of those showing symptoms.

[dalton99a]

2. The Russian army is building 16 hospitals for coronavirus patients

according to other reports

(looks like they're using China's playbook)