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Moscow Starts Shutting Down as Kremlin Says Russia Has ‘No Epidemic’
- Cases of the virus in Russian capital grew a third in past day
- Putin limits travel as Kremlin says no epidemic yet in Russia
Security guards stand at the Krasnaya Presnya depot of the Moscow Metro in Moscow, March 25.
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With the extent of Russia’s coronavirus epidemic distorted by a lack of testing, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin ordered restaurants and most stores in Europe’s biggest city to shut down for a week.