WHO pessimism over the omicron. Actual about the pandemic on December 15

WHO warns of an increase in the number of deaths and hospitalizations due to "omicron", the first case of death from the omicron strain, vaccination of children will not be mandatory. The most relevant about the covid pandemic is in the RBC review December 15, 11:40 Moscow time CORONAVIRUS RUSSIA Moscow World +28363 (per day) 10.1 million Infected 0 +1142 (per day) 292.9 thousand Died +2459 (per day) 1,

Situation in Russia

The country revealed 28,363 new cases of covid-19 per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of infected is 10 million, 8.8 million people have recovered. More than 292,000 people have died. Over the past day, 1,142 people have died from coronavirus.

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Russian Minister of HEALTH Mikhail Murashko said that in Russians infected with "omicron" the disease is asymptomatic or with minor symptoms. But he noted that many of those infected with the omicron are people who already have immunity to the coronavirus. In Russia, more than 75 million people were vaccinated with the first component of the coronavirus vaccine. Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that the State Duma would withdraw from consideration the bill on the introduction of QR codes in transport. Shortly before this, RBC sources reported on the decision of the Ministry of Transport and the lower house to postpone consideration of this issue and continue working on the document.

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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The government has developed a response plan in the event of the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus in Russia. Its president will discuss with the ministers today, 14 December. Mandatory vaccination requirements will not apply to children, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said. She recalled that for minors, vaccination remains exclusively voluntary and with parental consent. The level of collective immunity to coronavirus in Russia has exceeded 55%. The leader here among the regions remains Sevastopol - 83.7%.

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The governor of Transbaikalia, Alexander Osipov, proposed using "any methods" for vaccination. “If you want, come up with it, cordon off the quarters together with Rospotrebnadzor and the military and vaccinate everyone according to the lists,” Osipov said.

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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 exceeded 267.8 million people, of which more than 5.28 million died.

The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases , with more than 49.2 million infected. India is in second place (more than 34.67 million), Brazil is in third (more than 22.16 million), the United Kingdom is in fourth (more than 10.6 million), and Russia is in fifth . Over 8.98 million cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Turkey, more than 7.8 million in France.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that the new strain of coronavirus "omicron" will lead to an increase in the number of hospitalizations and deaths of patients with COVID-19. Detailed information on the severity of the "omicron" will appear in the coming weeks.

In the UK, for the first time, a case of death of a patient infected with "omicron" was recorded. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a televised address to the nation, warned of an avalanche onset of the omicron strain. According to him, the only way to cope with it is with the help of a revaccination program.

The United States of America intends to donate over 1.2 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines to other countries by the end of 2022.

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