COVID-19

Показатель заболеваемости коронавирусной инфекцией в России увеличился почти на 50% с 4 по 10 сентября. Об этом сообщил оперативный штаб по борьбе с COVID-19. «Показатель заболеваемости новой коронавирусной инфекцией за прошедшую неделю на 100 тыс. населения составил 5,5 и увеличился по сравнению с предыдущей неделей на 49,2%», — говорится в сводке оперштаба. Всего с 4 по 9 сентября госпитализиров...

Google will require advertisers to label political ads that were created using neural networks. The change in rules was preceded by a scandal involving fake photographs of Donald Trump in advertising for his competitor.Starting in November, Google will begin requiring those who place political ads to inform users of the company's services if artificial intelligence was used to create them . The Hi...

Former schemamonk Sergius (Nikolai Romanov)The Moscow City Court reduced the term of imprisonment by one month for the former schema-monk Sergius (Nikolai Romanov), convicted in the case of inciting hatred. TASS reports this with reference to the press service of the court. Earlier, Romanov’s defense filed an appeal and demanded an acquittal. “The defense’s appeal was partially satisfied, Romanov’...

11 members of the Trickbot hacker group were subject to American and British sanctions . The US accuses her of attacks on companies and the country's government , as well as hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published a new sanctions list that includes 11 people. The list states that the sanctions were imposed for activi...

US President Joe Biden tested negative for coronavirus . He will go to the G20 summit in India, despite his wife's COVID-19 , said US national security adviser Jake Sullivan. “The President will travel to New Delhi in India to attend the G20 summit,” Sullivan said. The fact that Jill Biden became infected with the coronavirus became known on September 5. First Lady spokeswoman Elizabet...

Jill BidenUS First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for coronavirus , according to the White House website. “She is currently experiencing only mild symptoms. She will remain at her home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,” First Lady spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said. After that, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added that after the First Lady tested positive for coronavirus, her hus...

Китай с 30 августа отменит требование предъявлять результаты ПЦР-теста на COVID перед въездом в страну. Об этом заявил официальный представитель китайского МИДа Ван Вэньбинь, передает ТАСС. «С 30 августа тем, кто въезжает в Китай, не нужно проходить предварительное ПЦР-тестирование или антиген-тест на COVID-19», — сказал он. Власти Китая с начала 2......

Рост производственных издержек остается главной проблемой сектора. За трехлетний период, закончившийся в мае 2023 года, средние затраты на корма выросли на 51%. Выплаты поддержки со стороны MAFF компенсируют некоторые более высокие затраты. Помогает также то, что цены на туши находятся на исторически высоком уровне. Мясная промышленность ожидает, что высокий внутренний розничный спрос на свинину б...

The new subspecies of the Pyrola coronavirus has many mutations, such large evolutionary changes are similar to those of the Omicron, which caused a sharp increase in the incidence in early 2022Scientists are concerned about the emergence of a new variant of the COVID-19 BA.2.86 virus, dubbed "pyrol", due to the large number of mutations that could potentially help it overcome the protection creat...

From August 30, China will remove the requirement to present the results of a PCR test for COVID before entering the country. This was stated by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, reports TASS . “From August 30, those who enter China do not need to undergo a preliminary PCR test or an antigen test for COVID-19,” he said. From the beginning of 2......

A new variant of the omicron strain of coronavirus infection BA.2.86 has been discovered in Switzerland and South Africa, as well as in Israel, Denmark, the USA and the UK . This was announced in an interview with Reuters by Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead on COVID-19 . The sequencing of this variant of the omicron strain was announced on August 18 by the director general of the organizatio...

“The idea came to us during the pandemic"It was a COVID-19 emergency when the restaurant was closed," Luzon said of his invention. "But you could say it was decades in the making. I have a cousin who designs all kinds of custom vending machines in China. I told him what I wanted, and he found a factory that could make it. They sent us a prototype, and after a few minor tweaks, we had the first 2.....

WHO Chief Scientist announced his intention to organize a mission to China to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but only if the Chinese authorities are ready to share all the informationIt is more likely that COVID-19 is of natural origin than that it was created in a laboratory, World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar said in an interview with The Financial Times...

About 1.4 million people became infected with coronavirus infection in the world between July 17 and August 13, and more than 2.3 thousand died. The number of infections increased by 63% compared to the previous 28 days, and the number of deaths decreased by 56%. This follows from data from the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the WHO fact sheet, the world recorded 1,422,538 cases of ...

США приступили к подготовке к новой пандемии и изучают новые мутации вирусов, заявил начальник войск радиационной, химической и биологической защиты ВС России генерал-лейтенант Игорь Кириллов. «Не исключаем применение Соединенными Штатами так называемых оборонительных технологий в наступательных целях, а также в целях глобального управления путем создания кризисных ситуаций биологического характер...

Индии нужно сделать еще многое, чтобы стать сверхдержавой, страна к этому стремится, заявил глава МИДа страны Джайшанкар. Премьер страны Нарендра Моди обещал, что экономика страны будет в числе ведущих в ближайшие пять лет Перед Индией все еще стоит множество вызовов, хотя многое было сделано за последние десять лет, сказал на встрече с журналистами в Нью-Дели 16 августа министр иностранных дел Су...

Численность бездомных в США за год выросла на рекордные 11%, пишет WSJ. Опрошенные газетой эксперты связывают это с ростом стоимости жилья и прекращения «пандемийных субсидий» со стороны властей Количество бездомных в США за последний год выросло на рекордные 11%, в настоящее время к ним относятся 577 тыс. человек (около ......

Since the beginning of the conflict, the United States has provided Ukraine with $130 billion in military and financial assistance, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. said . He also accused the authorities of sponsoring protests in Kiev in 2014. US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.US spending on aid to Ukraine has already amounted to $13......

«Волга-Днепр» уведомила канадские власти о необходимости вернуть «захваченный» самолет Ан-124, основываясь на соглашении между странами 34-летней давности. Но возникшая ситуация этим документом не предусмотрена, отметил эксперт Российская грузовая авиакомпания «Волга-Днепр» направила властям Канады официальное уведомление, в котором предложила урегулировать спор вокруг ареста самолета Ан-124-1.......

Заполнение анкеты о COVID-19 для прилетающих в Россию из-за рубежа отменил Роспотребнадзор, следует из постановления ведомства, опубликованного на портале правовой информации. Анкеты о COVID-19 ввели с 1 августа 2020 года. Все россияне, которые прилетают в страну из-за рубежа, должны были заполнять анкеты на сайте госуслуг, а также сдать ПЦР-тест. Иностранных граждан также обязывали заполнить анке...

Despite all the talk about import substitution, Russian manufacturing is still reeling from the currency crisis. And keeping food prices down amid the ruble's depreciation is no easy task. The euro broke the 100 mark back in July. And virtually all equipment at domestic plants is foreign-made, said Sergei Yushin, head of the executive committee of the National Meat Association: "There's practicall...

After suffering a coronavirus, people may change the color of their legs, experts interviewed by RBC said. Scientists from the British University of Leeds published a study in the Lancet, which talks about the consequences of a long COVID-19 - various medium and long-term consequences due to the coronavirus. The article deals with a 3......

China's economic growth in the second quarter slowed to 0.8% after 2.2% in the first, but in annual terms, the figure rose. In July, China recorded deflation for the first time in a yearChina is a "ticking time bomb" due to its economic problems, said US President Joe Biden , noting that Beijing is in trouble due to weak growth. “They have some problems. It's not good because when bad people get i...

A group of 23 tourists from the Chinese city of Xi'an arrived in Moscow under an agreement on a group visa-free exchange, according to a statement on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development. “I am sure that as early as next week, Russian groups will also be able to travel to China as part of the group visa-free mechanism. We received confirmation from the Chinese side that they are rea...

In Russia, the EG.5 Eris variant of the coronavirus has not yet become widespread, but there are risks of complication of the epidemiological situation, Rospotrebnadzor reported.A new variant of the EG.5 'Eris' omicron coronavirus strain is rapidly spreading around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The EG.5 strain was registered on February 17th. Since then, “there has bee...

Medical products based on artificial intelligence (AI) will appear in all regions of Russia by the end of the year, and now, by the middle of the year, medical products using AI have been contracted for 500 million rubles. This was announced in mid-July during the plenary session of the State Duma by Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko . Artificial Intelligence is a federal project that ha...

59 countries around the world may face problems in securing their debt in the event of a negative scenario with an increase in carbon emissions, British scientists said . The UN warned that the planet is heading for a 'climate hell'About 60 countries will face rising debt service costs over the next ten years due to a failure to limit carbon emissions, which will lead to lower credit ratings, acco...

How the program works, which at one time contributed to the rapid entry into the market of the world's first vaccine against COVID-19 , and what opportunities it gives market participants - in the material of RBCMoscow has created a large-scale ecosystem for conducting clinical drug trials. Its development will speed up the introduction of innovative drugs to the Russian market and provide them to...

Prior to the start of the COVID pandemic , Xi Jinping made an average of 14 foreign trips a year. In 2022, after a break, he visited five countries and spent 13 days abroad. In the first half of 2023, the figure fell to two days Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin In 2023, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spent only two days outside his country, according to Bloomberg , which analyzed government records of his...

Безвизововый режим для туристических групп между Россией и Китаем запустился с 1 августа, сообщило МЭР. Но полноценно механизм заработает не раньше сентября, а запуск безвиза в августе больше выгоден Китаю, считают эксперты Безвизовый режим для групповых туристических поездок между Россией и Китаем возобновил работу с 1 августа, сообщили в пресс-службе Минэкономразвития. Поехать в соседнюю страну ...