From the MT:
“Moscow Hospitals to Limit
Treatment to Vaccinated Patients”
Moscow hospitals will no longer
provide routine treatment to unvaccinated patients, health authorities
announced Friday. The announcement is
the latest unprecedented measure taken as the Russian capital, a metropolis of
12 million people, saw a record number of new Covid-19 infections Friday.
Officials link the drastic surge over the past week to new, more-contagious mutations
of the virus, particularly the Delta variant first detected in India. Muscovites
will have to present proof of their vaccination prior to treatment, the Moscow
health department said.
Unvaccinated patients who require
emergency care or treatment for cancer or blood diseases will still be able to
seek treatment, as well as those with medical exemptions from vaccination. The
Moscow health department pointed to the rising risk of infection spreading in
the city’s roughly 50 hospitals as the impetus for the new restrictions. “Every day, patients are transferred from
Moscow’s clinics to its Covid hospitals. If a week ago this number was 130
cases per day, then yesterday it was already almost 200,” the department. Moscow has started to rapidly reprofile
hospitals to increase the number of beds available to coronavirus patients. The
number of designated Covid-19 beds is now almost back at levels seen during the
first peak of hospitalizations last spring. Also on Friday, city officials announced
additional restrictions and incentives to drive up flagging vaccination rates.
The city ordered 60% of service sector workers to get vaccinated earlier in the
week. Vaccination requirements may also apply to this September's State Duma
elections, Anna Popova, the head of Russia’s health watchdog, said Friday. "Our
forecast for September is as follows: We are ready together with you to ensure
safe voting so that the expression of the will of our citizens can be fully realized," Popova said at a meeting of
Russia’s Central Election Commission. "We probably would not recommend
such a form [at-home voting] in this situation," she added.
^ It looks like a major Covid
Surge in Moscow that will possibly spread to other parts of Russia. ^
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