Starting Wednesday, anyone using a car or public transport in Moscow or the surrounding region must have a digital pass, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin tightened the lockdown on Russia’s capital, introducing a digital permit system for trips by vehicle this week after voluntary restrictions failed to curb travel and keep people off the streets.
Starting Wednesday, anyone using a car or public transport in Moscow or the surrounding region must have a digital pass, Sobyanin said in a statement Saturday.
People can travel by foot without the permits “for now," he said. The announcement came just one day after the mayor said that the city could require people to have permission to move around