vaccinations, are now being told they have to stay home for the next four months, isa. on top of that, the people in the companies in the service industry as of january next year will have to have vaccinated 80% of their employees. all of this being local measures to deal with what is now a national problem with less than 50% of the population that's been vaccinated. a great deal of resistance, popular resistance if you like, against the national vaccination campaign. constant exhortations from vladimir putin and others to get vaccinated here. but the uptake has been extremely slow and low. and as a consequence of that, the russians are now seeing these very significant increases in not only the numbers of infection, but particularly the numbers of deaths and particularly people over 60, isa. >> sam kiley for us there in moscow, thanks very much, sam. good to see you. and still ahead right here on cnn, there's a battle over