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Moscow mayor says Delta variant accounts for 90pc of new Covid-19 cases
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a figure of a Young Pioneer, a Soviet-era youth organisations member, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Moscow, April 15, 2020. u00e2u20acu201d Reuters pic
Wednesday, 23 Jun 2021 8:28 PM MYT

MOSCOW, June 23 — Ninety per cent of newly-detected Covid-19 cases in Moscow are being registered as the more contagious Delta variant of the virus, the Russian capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said today.

Sobyanin said Moscow’s healthcare system was operating "close to its capacity” after the spike which prompted him to introduce fresh restrictions in the city of 13 million. — Reuters

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