Russia will ease some of its COVID-19 restrictions from Sunday, the health watchdog announced on Saturday, despite recording a record number of daily cases as the omicron variant spreads across the country. .
The number of daily infections has increased since January. But the highly transmissible omicron variant has not led to a significant increase in deaths, and the Kremlin has recently dismissed concerns about the risk of further lockdowns.
According to the latest order from the citizens’ health watchdog, from Sunday people will no longer have to self-isolate after coming into contact with those infected with COVID-19.
In Moscow, schools and kindergartens will be able to end student isolation requirements from next week, the capital’s coronavirus task force has said.
Earlier this week, Anna Popova, head of the watchdog group, stated that some of the restrictions no longer made sense as the omicron variant was spreading too quickly. Up to 20% of infected people in Russia and 40% in Moscow have no symptoms.
The order to lift restrictions comes as daily new cases in Russia rose to 177,282 on Saturday, up from 168,201 a day earlier, and up from fewer than 16,000 a day in Russia a month ago, according to the watchdog group. government work on coronavirus.
It also reported 714 deaths in the past 24 hours, down from record levels of more than 1,200 recorded in November.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx