| Moscow closes fan zones 09:37 - Jun 18 with 570 views | KeithHaynes |
Moscow has closed its Euro 2020 fan zone and banned gatherings of more than 1,000 because of a spike in Covid-19 cases, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday. "I didn't want to do this, but we have to," Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his website a day after saying that cases in Moscow had nearly tripled in just days. "Starting today, we will limit mass events to a maximum of 1,000 people." "We are temporarily stopping all mass entertainment events and we'll also have to close dance halls and fan zones," he wrote, referring to the Euro 2020 fan zone outside of the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow.
On Thursday Sobyanin said that cases in Moscow, the metropolis of 12 million that's been the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in Russia, soared from 3,000 to 7,000 within a few days and were expected to hit more than 9,000 on Friday.
"It's tripling, there's an enormous dynamic that we have not seen during the previous waves," Sobyanin said during a video conference, adding that new variants were likely to blame.
On Wednesday, Sobyanin had ordered mandatory vaccinations of all service industry workers in Moscow and last weekend announced a "non-working" week in the capital. |  |
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| Moscow closes fan zones on 22:33 - Jun 18 with 457 views | max936 |
Its crazy and it absolutely angers and saddens me on how bad we've fared over this pandemic, failure to close borders. failure to protect care homes, failure to get testing right failure to source PPE and wasted billions by giving contracts to unprofessional businesses. |  |
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| Moscow closes fan zones on 22:42 - Jun 18 with 442 views | max936 |
Just watching news and the crowds of Scots in London, it's not gonna end well over the next few weeks. | |
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| Moscow closes fan zones on 09:28 - Jun 19 with 371 views | Ozzie |
| Moscow closes fan zones on 22:42 - Jun 18 by max936 |
Just watching news and the crowds of Scots in London, it's not gonna end well over the next few weeks. |
This whole sham stops when testing stops. End of story. |  | | |
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