Sobyanin promised grants to businesses for vaccination of employees and QR codes

The authorities decided to encourage companies that are the first to vaccinate 60% of employees. They will be given grants in the amount of 100% of personal income tax, which was paid for the previous 12 months.

Moscow business is making a "huge contribution" to vaccination in the city, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said as he announced incentives for the most "responsible and disciplined" workforce. An entry about this appeared on his blog.

The first 100 enterprises, organizations and individual entrepreneurs that fully vaccinate 60% of their employees will receive grants in the amount of 100% of personal income tax, which was paid for the previous 12 months (but not more than 5 million rubles). will receive grants for the full payment of utilities for this period.

“We expect that part of these funds will be used to encourage employees who have been vaccinated against covid-19,” the mayor added.

According to Sobyanin, 1.5 thousand enterprises have already reported that 60% of employees were vaccinated with the first component.

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In general, 2.7 million people have already received the first component of the vaccine in the city. The mayor expressed hope that the number of daily vaccinations will increase and next week the number of vaccinated citizens will reach 3 million. In general, vaccination against COVID-19 has gained “good momentum,” he stated.

Now, entrance to restaurants and cafes in Moscow is carried out only with a QR code, which confirms the safety of a person (vaccination passed, illness or a negative test result). Until July 12, without a code, you can visit the summer verandas or terraces of the cafe.

In the first days after the introduction of restrictions, according to the authorities, the revenue of establishments decreased by 20%. However, restaurateurs interviewed by RBC called different numbers: they talked about a 50% drop in restaurants with verandas, and 95% without verandas.

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At the end of June, the HEAD of the Moscow Department of Trade and Services, Alexei Nemeryuk, admitted that the Moscow authorities could extend the QR code system to other industries. “Let's be so direct: public transport and shops - maybe not in the near future. But we have ideas of which industries can join this program,” he said.

The Department of Transport explained that such a decision is within the competence of the regional operational headquarters and it has not yet taken it.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 1.3 million infections have become known in Moscow, 22.7 thousand people have died. At the end of June, the daily number of deaths from CORONAVIRUS for the first time crossed the 100 mark in the region and on June 28 was 124.