Russia Battling Covid-19 Resurgence

Infections have surged in Moscow and the capital accounts for nearly half of all Russia's cases

Daily Mail: Moscow gripped by growing Covid catastrophe: Russian capital records 144 deaths in 24 hours with officials blaming Indian variant for sweeping through vaccine-sceptic population

* Moscow is seeing surge in Covid-19 cases that authorities blame on Delta variant

* Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said variant represents 90% of new infections

* Steep rise in cases has meant officials are urging vaccine-sceptical Russians to get innoculated

Moscow on Sunday recorded 144 Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the worst toll in a Russian city since the start of the pandemic, according to official data.

The capital is seeing a surge in infections that authorities blame on the highly transmissible Delta variant and slow progress on the vaccination drive, with 6,723 new cases recorded on Sunday.

Moscow has been the national epicentre of the pandemic and some 2,000 people are hospitalized daily because of the virus there, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said late on Saturday in televised remarks.

'We have mobilized 20,000 beds and 14,000 of them are currently filled,' he said. 'That's a lot.'

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