Prognosis
Moscow Mayor Restores Covid-19 Restrictions as Infections Surge
- Sobyanin orders June 15-19 as non-working days after holiday
- Moscow reopens thousands of hospital beds as new cases rise
Commuters wearing protective face masks on a metro train window in Moscow on June 11.
Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered the return of sweeping restrictions in an attempt to curb a spike in Covid-19 infections as he warned that authorities are making thousands of hospital beds available to cope with the rise in cases.