MOSCOW — With Russia enduring its worst wave of the pandemic, setting grim records in daily cases and deaths, Moscow announced a lockdown Oct. 21 — a move the Kremlin had previously said it would avoid at all costs.
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A serviceman of Russia's Emergencies Ministry wearing protective gear disinfects an Orthodox chapel at Moscow's Leningradsky railway station on Oct. 19, 2021, amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. - Russia has officially recorded 1,015 coronavirus deaths on Oct. 19, up from 998 the previous day, and 33,740 new Covid-19 cases, down from 34,325.
