Africa Business Radio

Moscow’s mayor ordered the city’s first coronavirus restrictions since the summer, as Russia registered 1,015 daily COVID deaths.The government is considering keeping people off work for a week to reduce social contact in a bid to lower the tide of infections.President Vladimir Putin is expected to decide on Wednesday which government measures put to him should be implemented to curb the spread of the virus across the country.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered unvaccinated over-60s in the capital to work from home and extended mandatory vaccinations for service workers. Sobyanin also told employers to move 30 per cent of their staff to home working.