REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File PhotoMoscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin extended an upcoming school holiday by a week on Tuesday to limit the spread of the coronavirus, days after sources told Reuters the capital’s hospitals had been told to free up hundreds of beds. On Tuesday, Sobyanin said students would be off from school from Oct. 5-18, and urged parents to keep their children at home. “Today a significant proportion of the sick - who are often asymptomatic - are children,” Sobyanin said on his website. The rouble nosedived on Tuesday, hitting 93 against the euro and continuing its sharp downward trajectory from the previous two trading sessions. With 1,167,805 cases, Russia has the world’s fourth-highest number of infections.

Source: Standard Digital September 29, 2020 09:22 UTC