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Major lock downs as people are dying across several regions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59076152
Only essential shops like supermarkets and pharmacies are allowed to open in the capital, while food outlets are only providing takeaways.
Authorities have also given workers across Russia nine days off from Saturday in a bid to curb infections.
Russia has reported a record 1,159 deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours.
The official data also reveals 40,096 new infections in 85 regions of Russia - another record. Russia's last major lockdown was in May-June 2020.
Russia's overall Covid death toll in the pandemic is officially more than 230,000, the highest in Europe and one of the highest in the world.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)St. Petersburg registered 2,281 coronavirus cases on Friday, October 1 the highest daily increase since January 2021. The city also recorded 55 deaths due to COVID-19 and 450 hospitalizations. The day before, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov warned that If we don't obtain collective immunity, [additional] restrictions will have to be introduced. According to medical workers, local coronavirus hospitals are already feeling overwhelmed. Meanwhile, the Russian Health Ministry has raised the citys vaccination target to 3.5 million people. But if vaccination continues at its current rate, this goal wont be met until the end of next summer.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/10/01/the-wave-after-the-wave
malaise
(267,827 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)An important precedent Russian woman wins million-ruble lawsuit against hospital following her husbands death from COVID-19
12:42 pm, October 25, 2021
Source: Meduza
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/10/25/an-important-precedent
LisaL
(44,962 posts)NT
malaise
(267,827 posts)FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)Haven't the pharmaceutical companies made enough profits already?
Why do they need to keep making more money while people are dying? Just share the formula so foreign countries can make their own vaccines. That's all the Big Pharma need to do. It won't cost them anything.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Many people refuse to vaccinate. But absence of vaccines is not an issue here.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)They laid a path to create distrust in government through propaganda that creates a misinformed, uneducable populace, and thereby cripple the ability to respond to crises.
Unnecessary Covid Death in countries controlled by Rightists is the way it is now; it's the way it will be for years. The sane nations will have to isolate themselves from the unsane.