COVID-19

Fidel Ramos Fidel Ramos, the former president of the Philippines who led the country from 1992 to 1998, has died at the age of 94 from complications caused by the coronavirus, according to The Manila Times. The death of the politician was confirmed to the Rappler portal by his niece. Ramos died at a medical center in suburban Manila on July 31. The administration of the country's current president...

The result of another test for the coronavirus of US President Joe Biden, which he passed on the morning of July 31, was positive. This was announced by the President's attending physician Kevin O'Connor, reports Reuters. According to the doctor, the head of state feels well, he will continue to observe the regime of self-isolation. “Given his positive result, which we reported yesterday, we conti...

As of July 31, over the past day, 12,498 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia, according to the headquarters for combating this disease. The day before, 12,248 new cases were recorded in the country, thus, their number exceeded the threshold of 12 thousand for the first time since April. Over the past day, 982 people were hospitalized, 38 patients died. The total number ...

US President Joe Biden is doing well despite testing positive for coronavirus. He announced this in a video on Twitter. “My test came back positive this morning. I will be working from home for the next few days. And I feel good, everything is in order, ”said the American president. Biden tests positive for coronavirus again Politics The White House announced Biden's infection on July 21. He had a...

Pelosi confirmed plans to visit four Asian countries - Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. Chinapreviously publicly urged her not to visit TaiwanNancy Pelosi Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will visit four countries during her visit to Asia, Taiwan is not on this list. The states that Pelosi will visit as head of the congressional delegation are listed in the announ...

RBC Tatarstan sums up the informational results of the week,recalling the most significant events in the life of the republic COVID restrictions On July 29, Lyubov Avdonina, deputy head of Rospotrebnadzor for the Republic of Tatarstan, said that today there is no need to introduce new COVID restrictions in the republic. The morbidity situation is assessed as stable, although the number of cases is...

The President feels well, but will be forced to return to self-isolation. His attending physician attributed the repeated positive test result after recovery to the effect of Paxlovid, Joe Biden US President Joe Biden passed another test for coronavirus on Saturday, he gave a positive result, his attending physician Kevin O'Connor said. The statement was published on the White House website. On Ju...

Tatyana Golikova Despite the increase in the incidence of coronavirus, Russia has not recorded a sharp increase in hospitalizations, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said during a meeting of the operational headquarters. She stressed that the main task of the operational headquarters at the moment is to prevent a further increase in the incidence. “All healthcare systems should be as prepare...

The level of herd immunity to coronavirus in Russia decreased by more than 1.5 p.p. per week and amounted to 10.7%, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. A week earlier, this figure was 12.3%. At the same time, the incidence of COVID-19 is growing in the country: for the second day in a row, more than 11 thousand new cases of infection per day are detected, which has not been reco...

More than 12,248 coronavirus infections per day in Russia were observed on April 10. At that time, the operational headquarters for combating the pandemic reported more than 13,000 deaths. In Russia, 12,248 infections with coronavirus infection were detected per day, this is the maximum since April 1......

According to the head of the region, if the incidence continues to grow, and herd immunity continues to fall, then it will be necessary to return the mask regime.Over the week, the number of cases increased by 8% “Medical institutions have already returned the mask regime. We also need to consult. Of course, in the summer it is even more inconvenient. But if the situation continues to develop in t...

In Bulgaria, in the first five months of 2022, compared to the same period last year, the number of Russian tourists increased by 3.9 times, Tourism Minister Hristo Prodanov said, Dnes reports. “Despite the difficult international situation, the lack of direct flights, a total of 33,584 visits [to the country] by Russian tourists were taken into account in January-May 2......

During a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Joe Biden raised the topic of public health security and transparency in this area, including in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic , White House spokeswoman Karine Jean- Pierre. “We said we need more data to figure out the origin of the pandemic. We continue to work with our partners around the world to get China t...

A special operation in Ukraine could lead to the fragmentation of the world economy into geopolitical blocs. This will prevent countries from jointly fighting global problems, including climate change, The International Monetary Fund (IMF), along with traditional economic and financial risks (tightening of monetary policy, slowdown in economic growth in China, rising energy prices, etc.), attribut...

The Novosibirsk company JSC Vector-BiAlgam, which produces vaccines against the coronavirus EpiVacKorona, filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company Geropharm with a request to recover 259.6 million rubles to the Arbitration Court of the Novosibirsk Region. Information about this is contained in the case card. The court accepted the claim, but left it without progress until August 25 inclu...

Among doctors there is no consensus on the likelihood of a new wave of COVID-19. Moscow medical institutions are returning the anti-epidemic regime with mandatory thermometry, masks and social distance, a new increase in the incidence is recorded in St. Petersburg and forecasts are being made about the beginning of the sixth wave of the pandemic. However, in Finland they are calling for revaccinat...

The beginning of the rise in the incidence is provoked by the spread of three sub-variants of coronavirus A new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic begins in Bashkiria . This is evidenced by the growing incidence rates in the region, experts interviewed by RBC Ufa said. The new rise in the number of cases is due to the spread of strains of coronavirus BA.4 and BA.5, as well as a subvariant known as "cen...

The city's health commissioner said the name "monkeypox" could have a stigmatizing effect on blacks as well as members of the LGBT community. Because of this, he stressed, New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Wasan has asked the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus to rename monkeypox, as he believes the name is stigmatizing and can offend members of a number of races...

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 110 people. Among the infected are 32 residents aged 60 years and older. New cases of the disease were diagnosed in 20 territories of the region: in Perm, Berezniki, Chaikovsky, Kudymkar, in Chusovsky, Krasnokamsky, Permsky, Kungursky, Nytvensky, Lysvensky, Chernushinsky, Vereshchaginsky, Gornozavodsky, Oktyabrsky, Bardyms...

This is the highest figure since April 13, when more than 11.7 thousand cases were registered.coronavirus cases In Russia, 11,515 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected per day, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. More than 11.5 thousand infected in the country were registered for the first time since April 13. Then more than 11.7 thousand cases of COVID-19 were detect...

US President Joe Biden tested negative twice a week after contracting coronavirus and will return to face-to-face work, Reuters reports. The disease of 79-year-old Biden became known on July 21; having become infected, he switched to remote work. The American leader passed the first negative test on July 26, the second on July 27. "My symptoms were mild, my recovery was quick and I feel great," Bi...

The publication writes that due to the actions of the President of Russia, who seeks to destabilize the EU,German consumers may face a shortage of gas cylinders and oil coolers Gas cylinders and oil coolers are gradually disappearing from the shelves of German hardware stores, writes Spiegel in the morning newsletter. According to the authors, the current shortage is similar to that of toilet pape...

In the Krasnodar Territory, at the moment, not a single case of infection with the new subspecies of COVID-19 "Centaur" has been registered. RBC Krasnodar was told about this in the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor. On Wednesday, Natalya Pshenichnaya, deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, said that seven cases of the Centaur disease had already...

The number of infections is growing due to new substrains, but not as fast as with the appearance of the original version of "omicron", said the deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology. The expert thinks A rapid increase in the incidence of COVID-19 , as in January when changing "delta" to "omicron", is not observed in Russia, said Natalya Pshenichnaya, deputy director of...

The US S&P 500 fluctuations in June were three times the level of volatility before the pandemic, and the NASDAQ Composite has fallen by almost 30% since the beginning of the year. The Economist explains, Market analysts and investors often find the times in which they live unique. History has at least four "black Mondays" (a sharp one-day stock market fall. -). They got their name by analogy with...

Natalya Koryagina, chief freelance therapist of the Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory and Doctor of Medical Sciences, told RBC Perm about the main differences between the monkeypox virus and the coronavirus. The two viruses differ in how they are transmitted, she said. Because of this, monkeypox cannot spread as quickly as covid. However, according to world scientists, mutations are possibl...

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 99 people. Among those infected, 17 residents are aged 60 and over. New cases of the disease were diagnosed in three territories of the region: in Perm, Nytvensky and Dobryansky urban districts. Not a single patient died from COVID-19 during the day. During the entire period of the pandemic in the region, 8,851 patients di...

mask regime Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, head of the republican operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus infection Leyla Fazleeva said that now the incidence of COVID-19 in Tatarstan is at a low level and the intensity of the epidemic process is not observed. However, according to her, an autumn rise in the incidence is possible, which may lead to the resum...

Daily number of cases of COVID-19 infectionexceeded 9 thousand for the first time since mid-April.Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor explained the increase in the incidence of the spread of more contagious variants of the virus. Over the past day, Russian doctors have identified 9,027 new cases of coronavirus infection while testing 112,......

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 99 people. Among those infected, 17 residents are aged 60 and over. New cases of the disease were diagnosed in three territories of the region: in Perm, Nytvensky and Dobryansky urban districts. Not a single patient died from COVID-19 during the day. During the entire period of the pandemic in the region, 8,851 patients di...