COVID-19

COVID Seoul called Pyongyang's attacks baseless. Kim Jong Un announced victory over COVID-19 yesterday The sister of the leader of the DPRK, Kim Yo-jong, who holds the post of deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, threatened to destroy the South Korean authorities for trying to spread the coronavirus in her country, her word...

During research in St. Petersburg, a new variant of the coronavirus was identified, which has not yet been seen in other countries,- a hybrid of "omicron" and "delta" Researchers have discovered in Russia a new variant of the coronavirus, which is a hybrid of the Omicron and Delta strains. The danger of the “Russian deltacron” has yet to be studied, American geneticist Dmitry Pruss told RBC. The d...

"Voting on stumps" worked when there was a peak in the incidence of COVID-19, but now there is no need to return to it,said PamfilovaElla Pamfilova Voting in local areas will not be used in the September elections, said Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission, RBC correspondent reports. According to her, only two forms will be used this year on a single voting day in all regions: v...

Since August 2022, all children's polyclinics in Moscow have switched to using exclusively electronic medical records (EMRs). This has become one of the largest healthcare digitalization projects in the country. Paper medical records have already begun to be transported to the Main Archives for storage, and comfortable spaces for doctors are being equipped in place of the former map storages in po...

Estonian Prime Minister Kai Kallas lost his voice and had a fever, but previous tests for coronavirus showed a negative result. COVID-19confirmed on August 10,she saidKaya Callas Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has contracted COVID-19, she said on her Facebook page (owned by Meta, a corporation recognized as extremist in Russia and banned). She also posted a photo of a positive test certificat...

In the Kaliningrad region over the past day, 144 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected, one person died, 116 recovered. This is reported by the information center for the fight against infection. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, 171,863 people have been infected in the region, 168,656 have been ill, and 1,939 have died. In Russia, on the morning of August 1......

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 280 people. A day earlier, 265 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the region , and on August 6, 293 cases. Not a single patient died from COVID-19 during the day. During the entire period of the pandemic in the region, 8,853 patients died from coronavirus. The total number of infected in the Perm Territory has reached 375,...

More than 23.7 thousand cases were detected per day, which was the highest since March 26.Rospotrebnadzor does not consider it necessary to return coronavirus restrictions amid rising incidence after three months of decline In Russia, over the past day, 23,771 new cases of coronavirus have been identified, 2,666 people have been hospitalized, the federal operational headquarters said. The number o...

In the first half of 2022, the birth rate in Russia decreased by 6.3%, Rosstat reported. The experts explained to RBC, In January-June 2022, 635.2 thousand children were born in Russia, which is 42.9 thousand or 6.3% less than the result of the same period in 2021, follows from Rosstat data. Prior to this, the rate of decline in the absolute number of births has been slowing down since 2......

Due to the slowdown in global demand Chinamay face a reduction in export earnings - one of the key areas in the Chinese economy.This will generally negatively affect the country's economy and the yuan exchange rate. The growth of China 's exports in July showed that the economy of the country, which has been suffering since the spring due to the active policy of "zero tolerance" to the spread of C...

The $52.7 billion subsidy law for U.S. chipmakers aims to "strengthen U.S. manufacturing, supply chains, and national security"indicated in the White House Joe Biden US President Joe Biden signed a bill to provide $52.7 billion in subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing and research. The law should make the US more competitive with China in this area, the White House press office said. “The futu...

In the Kaliningrad region over the past day, coronavirus was confirmed in 146 people. This is reported by the COVID-19 Information Center. An increase in the incidence is recorded in the region - from 25 people at the beginning of July to 146 - at present. Over the past 24 hours, 22 people have been hospitalized, a month ago this figure was 14. 47 Kaliningraders were discharged, one sick person di...

In Russia, there has been an increase in the incidence of coronavirus, but at the moment a return to restrictive measures due to COVID-19 is not required, according to a message on the website of Rospotrebnadzor. According to the results of the week from August 1 to August 7, the incidence rate of coronavirus increased by almost 6......

The official representative of the Foreign Ministry responded to the words of Estonian Prime Minister Kai Kallas, who called for an end to issuing Schengen visas to Russian tourists. In her opinion, visiting Europe is a privilege, Estonian Prime Minister Kai Kallas's call to stop issuing entry visas to Russian tourists is "nonsense bordering on nationalism," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ma...

A significant increase in the incidence of COVID is predicted in the Perm Territory. Evgeny Smirnov, head of the epidemiological surveillance department of the Rospotrebnadzor Administration for the Perm Territory, said this in an interview with RBC Perm. The representative of the department said that an increase in the incidence was noted throughout Russia. The Perm Territory is no exception. Sin...

Among Muscovites who vote online in the elections of municipal deputies in September, up to 600,000 prizes, including cars, will be raffled off, according to the mayor's office website. “Sergey Sobyanin has accepted the offer of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry to hold a campaign under the Million Prizes program #ChooseTogether2......

Over the past day, 60 people have died from coronavirus in Russia, according to the data of the infection control headquarters. The last time more than 60 people died from COVID-19 in a day was at the end of June: according to information as of June 25, 61 people died then. The number of new cases in the country is 16325. After the rise in incidence to more than 2......

GDPcontinues to grow. Despite this, some experts believe In the second quarter , China achieved GDP growth of 0.4% compared to last year. However, no matter how the authorities of the Celestial Empire try to present this news in a rosy light, the economic situation in the country remains uncertain. A wave of "mortgage boycotts" (in China, people massively refuse to pay for the mortgage of houses w...

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 265 people. A day earlier, 267 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the region , and on August 6, 293 cases. Not a single patient died from COVID-19 during the day. During the entire period of the pandemic in the region, 8,853 patients died from coronavirus. The total number of infected people in the Perm region has reached ...

The increase in the incidence compared to last week was about 48% in the republic.Doctors and authorities strongly advise the population to get vaccinated In Karelia, the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to grow . According to the republican Rospotrebnadzor, 494 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected over the past week. The increase in incidence compared to last week amounted to 47....

In Tatarstan, a daily vaccination against COVID-19do 1-1.3 thousand people, while recently the figure was half that.Citizens have access to one vaccine - Sputnik V If earlier 500-600 people were vaccinated in the region, now this number has increased to 1-1.3 thousand people per day. This is reported by the publication "Business Online" with reference to the chief epidemiologist of the Ministry of...

The United States takes its visa obligations seriously under its agreement with the United Nations to establish the organization's headquarters in New York. This was stated in the American Permanent Mission to the UN, reports TASS. Journalists asked if visas would be issued to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other members of the Russian delegation to attend the high-level week of the Ge...

For the period from July 30 to August 5, 2022, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) received reports of the registration of 241 outbreaks of especially dangerous animal diseases from 28 countries of the world this year. The corresponding notifications were published on the official website of WOAH. New outbreaks of African swine fever were reported by Hungary (7), Italy (1), Latvia (44)...

The incidence of coronavirus in St. Petersburg has returned to the levels of March this year. According to the Federal Operational Headquarters for Combating Covid, 2,642 cases of infection were detected in St. Petersburg over the past day, this is the maximum since the beginning of spring. The number of detected cases of COVID-19 has been growing in the city since July 15 (329 new cases were reco...

In China, 35 patients have been identified with a fever believed to be caused by a new virus that can be transmitted from shrews to humans. A study on the pathogen was published by scientists from Beijing and Singapore in early August in The New England Journal of Medicine. During epidemic surveillance of patients with symptoms of fever in East China, the Langya henipavirus (LayV) virus was detect...

Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will head the Russian delegation to the UN General Assembly in September this year. The corresponding order of President Vladimir Putin is published on the portal of legal information. “To approve the following composition of the Russian delegation for participation in the work of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly: Lavrov S.V. - Minist...

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 267 people. A day earlier, 293 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the region , and on August 6, 266 cases. New cases of the disease were diagnosed in 23 territories of the region: in Perm, Berezniki, Kudymkar, Kungur, Perm, Krasnokamsk, Suksun, Kudymkar, Yusva, Kuedinsky, Gubakhinsky, Nytvensky, Chusovsky, Sivinsky, Lysven...

The vaccination point in one of the Naberezhnye Chelny shopping centers is resuming work amid an increase in the number of people who want to be vaccinated, the city health department said. The level of herd immunity in the region dropped to 4 in a week, As Deputy Head of the City Health Department Aigul Burganova said today, the COVID-19 vaccination point is reopening in the Omega shopping center...

Over the past day, 17,862 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia, over the weekend this figure decreased by almost 3 thousand. Compared to the previous day, the number of hospitalized with this diagnosis decreased by 16.8% - 1.2 thousand were admitted to hospitals per day. people, recovered more than 8.7 thousand, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. The large...

"Vkusno - i Tochka" will not open in Perm August 8 The company "Vkusno - i Tochka" postponed the opening of restaurants in Perm for technical reasons. A new launch date will be announced at a later date. This was reported to RBC Perm by the press service of the company. Earlier, the solemn opening ceremony was planned to be held on Monday, August 8, at 1......