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A medical specialist walks past an ambulance outside a hospital for patients infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia, June 16, 2021. REUTERS / Maxim Shemetov / File Photo
MOSCOW, June 18 (Reuters) – The Kremlin blamed another wave of COVID-19 infections on Friday’s nihilism, reluctance to have a vaccination rate and coronavirus mutations, as the central city has reported a record number of daily infections. Read more
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a campaign to promote vaccination had clearly not been as effective as desired and that Putin was monitoring the situation.
“The total nihilism, the low level of immunization (was the source of the surge),” Peskov said in a briefing. “We must also not forget the cunning of the infection itself.”
Peskov championed the idea of limiting access to certain areas based on a person’s vaccination record and COVID-19 to create “coronavirus-free areas”.
“The worst segregation of Russians is between those on ventilators in intensive care and those who are not,” he said. “This is the segregation that we must do everything to avoid.”
Reporting by Dmitry Antonov and Olzhas Asezov Editing by Andrew Osborn
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