President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has passed its pinnacle of coronavirus contaminations and requested a World War II triumph march deferred by the pandemic to be held one month from now.
The deferment of the May 9 Victory Day march had been an enormous hit to Putin, who had wanted to assemble world pioneers to watch troops walk on Red Square to celebrate a long time since the annihilation of Nazi Germany.
Be that as it may, with the number of new coronavirus cases declining consistently in Russia, Putin revealed to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to reschedule the motorcade for June 24.
"As per specialists, the pinnacle can be considered passed," Putin told Shoigu in a broadcast video interface up.
"We will do it on June 24, the day the unbelievable notable victors' motorcade occurred in 1945," Putin stated, alluding to the principal triumph march in Red Square after Germany's acquiescence to Soviet authorities on May 9.
With pioneers including China's Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron of France set to join in, the current year's procession had been implied as a significant feature of Russia's arrival to the world stage.
Putin had to report its deferral in mid-April as coronavirus diseases flooded and authorities requested lockdowns the nation over.
In the wake of topping in mid-May at in excess of 11,000 new cases for every day, the quantity of day by day contaminations has dipped under 9,000.
On Tuesday, the nation recorded its most noteworthy everyday loss of life of 174 - a number still far lower than in nations with comparative paces of contaminations - and said a record 12,000 individuals had recuperated from the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours.
Russia has the third-most elevated number of cases after the United States and Brazil, which authorities state is expected in huge part to a huge testing effort.
Specialists have been facilitating lockdowns notwithstanding the high number of diseases, however, extreme limitations stay set up in hard-hit Moscow until at any rate May 31.
Exacting security measures
Putin said "exacting wellbeing measures" would be set up for the procession.
"The dangers for all members ought to be limited, or shockingly better, killed," he said.
Another well-known occasion generally hung on May 9 - the Immortal Regiment parades that see Russians the nation over convey pictures of family members who kicked the bucket in World War II - will be hung on July 26, Putin said.
Russian maritime bases will likewise hold conventional maritime motorcades that day, he said.
Putin has clarified as of late that he trusts Russia has beaten the most noticeably awful of the pandemic.
On Monday, he showed up for a gathering in the Kremlin, in the wake of working remotely from his Novo-Ogaryovo living arrangement outside Moscow for as long as hardly any weeks.
The pandemic wrecked Putin's arrangements for a triumphant spring, with the motorcade deferred as well as an April vote on protected changes that would have prepared for the long-term pioneer to conceivably remain in power until 2036.
Authorities have said they despite everything trust the vote can be held for the current year yet still can't seem to report a date.
The administration's treatment of the emergency has experienced harsh criticism, with pundits saying Putin at first seemed unbiased in managing the pandemic.
One review by free surveyor Levada demonstrated Putin's endorsement rating tumbling to a memorable low of 59 percent in April.
As of late he has adopted a more straightforward strategy, censuring authorities for not giving enough defensive hardware or promising rewards to clinical laborers.