Moscow extends school holiday over coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: A teacher wears a face mask as she stands next to first graders during a ceremony marking the start of the new school year, as schools reopen after the summer break and the lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo

 

Moscow 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.