employees who refuse to be vaccinated may be terminated without compensation

Employees who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in regions where it is mandatory can be dismissed without payannounced the Russian Minister of Labor.

“If the health authorities in a region make vaccination compulsory for certain categories of workers, an unvaccinated employee may be suspendedAnton Kotiakov told Russian media on Saturday, in comments reproduced Sunday by the government broadcaster Telegram monitoring the pandemic.

According to the minister the suspension will last as long as the compulsory vaccination decree is valid.

Faced with the increase in cases, the city of Moscow and its region were the first in Russia to make vaccination compulsory, for employees in the service sector.

Since then, seven other local entities, including Saint Petersburg and its region, took similar action, according to Russian media.

After two consecutive days of record infections, Moscow posted a slight decline on Sunday, with 8,305 cases in 24 hours, a figure still much higher than two weeks ago, when some 3,000 cases were recorded daily.

According to the authorities, this outbreak is due to the Delta variant, which appeared in India, and which affects nearly 90% of new patients, according to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

The number of new cases in St. Petersburg exceeded 1000 in 24 hours for the first time since the end of February.

On a national level, the country registered 17,611 new cases.

The epidemic was favored by a slow vaccination campaign due to the mistrust of the Russians, the absence of restrictions for months and the failure to respect the rules of distancing and use of the mask.

President Vladimir Putin called to increase the vaccination rate in the country and he has been warned that officials who refuse to be vaccinated could be fired.

After two consecutive days of record infections, Moscow recorded a decline on Sunday, with 8,305 cases in 24 hours, a figure still much higher than that of two weeks ago. when about 3,000 daily cases were recorded.

They also argue that the epidemic was helped by a slow vaccination campaign by the mistrust of the Russians, the absence of restrictions for months and the failure to comply with the rules for distancing and using face masks.

“Today, our mission is to channel all efforts and resources to protect our fellow citizens against the coronavirus and its consequences. First of all, we must intensify the vaccination campaign and we have everything you need for it“The president said in a message to doctors nationwide celebrating Health Workers Day, Sputnik news agency reported.

Russia, Putin added, has four own vaccines against the coronavirus and continues to develop others.

The vaccination campaign started on December 5, 2020 with the Sputnik V vaccine developed by the Nikolai Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, then the other three compounds began to be used.

With a population of over 146 million, to date 16.1 million citizensThey were fully immunized, according to reports by Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Gólikova.

The cumulative total of infections since the start of the pandemic stands at 5.31 million and the total number of deaths from Covid-19 in Russia it rose to 129,361.

Source: AFP and EFE

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