It is too early to make positive forecasts for the COVID-19 situation in Moscow at the moment, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said at President Vladimir Putin-chaired conference on Wednesday, TASS reports.
"What are the forecasts for the near future? The way I see it, the situation will be complicated. No chance to make optimistic forecasts, let alone to relax, for the time being. We will be monitoring the situation and promptly taking all necessary measures proceeding from the current state of affairs in order to protect the people's health and life to the maximum extent possible, on the one hand, and on the other, to let the city's economy work normally," Sobyanin said.
Putin said that Moscow's mayor presented regular reports on the situation in the city and the measures being taken to ease the COVID-19 related risks.
"We will keep working in the same fashion further on to exchange information and to discuss proposed measures for struggle against covid," Putin said.
