"Omicron" in plague vectors. Actual about the pandemic on December 17

A new mutation of "omicron" allowed it to infect rodents, the Gamaleya Center is developing chemotherapy for covid-19, a dispute over the origin of the "omicron". The most relevant about the covid pandemic is in the RBC review December 17, 12:00 Moscow time CORONAVIRUS RUSSIA Moscow World +27743 (per day) 10.2 million Infected 0 +1080 (per day) 295.1 thousand Died +2755 (per day) 1.9 million Infected 0 +83 (per day) 35.7 thousand Died +740115 (per day) 272.9 million Infected 0 +7122 (per day) 5.3 million Died Source: JHU,

Situation in Russia

The country revealed 27,743 new cases of COVID-19 per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of infected is 10.1 million, 8.9 million people have recovered. More than 295,000 people have died. Over the past 24 hours, 1,080 people have died from coronavirus.

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Center them. Gamalei has filed a patent for a formula of a substance that could become the basis of a future chemotherapy drug for COVID-19. To create a drug, molecular docking will be used - a method that allows you to find a molecule that will most stably bind to the target - part of the coronavirus. In Moscow, school holidays will begin ahead of schedule - from December 27. So the city hall plans to break the transmission of the virus chain during the holidays. Virologists refute the concept of the “artificial origin” of the Omicron strain. Mutations in it could have appeared naturally, say experts interviewed by RBC. An alternative point of view was made the day before by virologist Peter Chumakov. Infection with two strains of coronavirus at once - "delta" and "omicron" - is possible says Alexander Gorelov, deputy DIRECTOR of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor. The day before, Moderna described such a scenario, warning that this could potentially lead to the emergence of a new, even more dangerous type of infection. The United Shipbuilding Corporation has stopped allowing employees of contractors to enter the territory of enterprises if they do not have a vaccination certificate or a PCR test.

Vaccination in regions of Russia Number of doses of vaccine applied per 100 population of the region* first dose second dose *May not be equal to the share of the vaccinated population. The operational headquarters includes data on revaccination in the information on vaccination with the first and second dose. At the same time, he does not specify whether people who have been revaccinated once or several times are taken into account. Sources: Coronavirus Operational Headquarters, Rosstat, RBC calculations Data for Russia i

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More than a third of foreign students were never able to return to Russia after leaving due to the pandemic. Now more than 140,000 foreign students out of 347,000 remain outside of Russia. The St. Petersburg City COURT will consider a class action lawsuit by residents against the city government demanding to cancel the introduction of QR codes.

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The share of those vaccinated among those infected with COVID-19 in Russia is about 3.9%, said the HEAD of the Ministry of HEALTH, Mikhail Murashko. In the hospital, the proportion of those vaccinated does not exceed 1.7%. The chief psychiatrist of the Ministry of Health and the head of the Serbsky Institute, Zurab Kekelidze, in an interview with RBC TV channel, named the main manifestations of the post-covid syndrome. Some recoveries have partial amnesia, when they forget certain words, as well as excessive irritability.

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The rate of spread of coronavirus in Russia 13 December Weekly growth rate of new cases, %. Week to week comparison.
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Russian laboratories offer several options for testing antibodies to the COVID-19 pathogen. Which one to choose, in what cases what is needed and why it is not necessary to compare tests from different laboratories - read in the RBC material.

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The situation in the world

According to WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 270 million, of which more than 5.3 million have died.

The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases , where more than 49.6 million infected have been identified. India is in second place (over 34.7 million), Brazil is in third (over 22.16 million), the United Kingdom is in fourth (over 10.8 million), and Russia is in fifth . Over 9 million cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Turkey, more than 8 million in France.

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The Omicron strain has already been identified in 77 countries around the world.

The new omicron strain of coronavirus is spreading extremely fast, with the number of new cases doubling every two to three days, WHO warns.

The omicron strain of the coronavirus can enter the body of plague-bearing rodents due to a “serious mutational shift,” researchers from the United States and Pakistan have concluded.

The United States may limit the use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine due to the remaining problems with the formation of blood clots in the vaccinated, sources told WP. The European Union has reserved batches of vaccine for the residents of Belarus and is ready to send them to the country, and a search is underway for the possibility of their transfer. This was announced by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

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