Metropolitan authorities have introduced new measures against COVID-19 to protect pensioners and people with chronic illnesses.
Anastasia Rakova, Moscow Deputy Mayor for Social Development, said that the new measures to counter the coronavirus taken in Moscow will protect the most vulnerable categories of citizens, including pensioners and people with chronic diseases. Rakova also said that elderly people are the hardest to tolerate COVID-19.
86% of diseases among pensioners ended in death, the number of vaccinated over 60 years old is only 23%, and among the elderly this figure is only a third, the vice mayor said.
“That is why the decisions we make are aimed primarily at protecting these two most vulnerable categories of citizens from disease,” Rakova said.
The vice mayor said that the measures will affect 1.9 million elderly Muscovites and 600.000 people with chronic diseases under 60 years of age.
Recall that earlier in Moscow introduced a number of restrictions for residents over 60 years old and citizens suffering from chronic diseases: they will have to comply with the regime of self-isolation from October 25 to February 25.
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