Russia covid today, St. Petersburg introduces mandatory vaccine for some categories

St. Petersburg introduces the obligation of vaccines against covid for all residents over 60 or with some chronic diseases, provides for a decree signed by the head of the consumer health protection agency Rospotrebnadzor for the city, Natalia Bachketova, quoted by the Ria Novosti agency. The region is one of the hardest hit by the fourth epidemic wave in Russia, with 2,680 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours out of the 39,160 counted across the country.