Editor's note: This is fresh. Russia's main Covid-19 alarmist, the Moscow rat mayor Sobyanin is now sounding like Andres Tegnell talking about "herd immunity" and how there is no cause for alarm. The scumbag played a huge role in locking down, not just Moscow, but also Russia.

But for whatever reason Russia reopened after a briefer lockdown period than Western Europe. The fact that a lockdown has been deemed unnecessary and unhelpful for the present situation as about 150 Russians continue to die while carrying the virus daily, is proof enough it was just as unnecessary (and disastrous) in April when the daily death toll was only slightly greater.

In fact, even before Sobyanin's ruling that masks are no longer mandatory Moscovites had already stopped wearing them. His apparent U-turn from a COVID Rouge zealot to a relative dove is him having to bow down to what the people are already practicing.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/. The herd immunity threshold for COVID-19 in Moscow is at the level that allows relaxing the restrictions imposed in the city amid the pandemic, moreover a second wave is not expected in the city in the near future, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a televised interview with the Russian channel Rossiya-24 on Friday.

"On the basis of experience and conversations with a variety of experts, doctors and specialists of Rospotrebnadzor [the Russian consumer watchdog], I can see that we managed to pass the peak and no second wave is expected in the foreseeable future. We believe that the population in Moscow has developed herd immunity, which lets us ease the restrictions with confidence," he said.