The mayor explained the adoption of austerity measures in Moscow because COVID-19

“We are in the highest risk group due to the fact that a huge number of people drove through Moscow or travelled abroad”, – he told on air “Russia-1”.

Photo: Alexander Korolkov do home Than Muscovites, who now not in a hurry

Sobyanin said that a lot of people are now in hospitals, hospitals, so local authorities have to make tough decisions to prevent the spread of infection.

“We took the decision to mobilize the largest possible number of hospitals to combat the coronavirus,” added the mayor. According to him, we are talking about almost 20 thousand beds in Federal, regional and private clinics.

Note, at the moment in Russia was 4731 case of coronavirus, 333 patients have already recovered. Moscow ranks first in the number of infected people in the country – there was 3357 cases.