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Moscow's Mayer Sergei Sobyanin says the situation is still far from ideal, and he says it's too early to talk about victory over coronavirus. But he said the city has avoided a worst case scenario of a peak in mid-May, which would have overwhelmed hospitals. Moscow has about half of Russia's confirmed cases of coronavirus, which rose above 300,000 on Wednesday. The number of new cases each day is lower than it was at the start of the month, and the World Health Organization says the situation appears to be stabilizing. Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh says it's time to begin lifting quarantine restrictions in some areas of the country. Moscow has been in partial lockdown since the end of March. People here are only allowed to go outside to do a limited number of essential activities. And Mayer Sobyanin said he will begin to open government offices and allow some planned treatment to go ahead now, but he says it's too early to talk about allowing outdoor walks or exercise. He says you won't consider allowing those until the number of new cases each day falls to the tens or hundreds. On Wednesday it was more than two and a half thousand. Lucy Taylor CGTN Moscow
