COVID-19

Coronavirus in Russia: infections are growing, hospitalizations are falling, quarantine is being weakened; Bloomberg mistakenly reported Russia's invasion of Ukraine at night, the Russians took the first gold in Beijing. The main events of the day - in the review of RBC Russia eases coronavirus restrictions Over the weekend, several easing of restrictive measures came into force in Russia due to t...

India has registered the Russian one-component vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik Light, according to a message received by RBC from the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). The country conducted additional clinical trials of the drug by RDIF partner company Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. The fund noted that during them "positive data" were obtained, which was taken into account by the Comptroller G...

Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar fell ill with coronavirus, he accompanied President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a visit to Ukraine, who had also previously been diagnosed with COVID-19 . “My test result for COVID-19 was positive. Fortunately, I feel well and we continue our work, taking the necessary precautions,” the minister wrote on Twitter. The Turkish delegation arrived in Kyiv ...

The situation with protests against restrictions on COVID-19 in the center of the Canadian capital of Ottawa is out of control, Mayor Jim Watson said on 580 CFRA radio station. “The situation is completely out of control at the moment because the organizers of the protest are in charge,” Watson said on the tenth day of the strike. According to him, there are not enough police officers in the city ...

In Bashkiria, for the ninth day in a row, records of the daily incidence of coronavirus have been recorded. Over the past day, COVID-19 was confirmed in 1994 people in the republic, the total number of infected reached 141,274, according to the operational headquarters for combating coronavirus in the region. During the day, 257 people were discharged with recovery. In total, 124,183 patients have...

In Russia, there is a tendency to stabilize with the spread of COVID-19 , because, despite the rapid increase in the number of new cases detected daily, the same surge in hospitalizations or deaths has not been detected. This was stated by the Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Natalya Pshenichnaya on the air of the...

The current wave of coronavirus in Russia will peak on February 22-24, 2022, when 200,000 new cases of COVID-19 will be detected daily in the country . Such a forecast was given by scientists from the Center for Intelligent Logistics of St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU), based on the mathematical model they created for the spread of coronavirus in Russia. 3......

Over the past day, 21,448 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in St. Petersburg . This is 2,592 more cases than in Moscow, where 18,856 infected people were identified. This follows from the data of the headquarters. In total, more than 180 thousand cases of infection were detected in the country, which is an absolute record for the country during the pandemic. At the same time, the number o...

6 2,743 cases of COVID-19identified in the Novosibirsk region per day. According to the operational headquarters, on the morning of February 6, 113,685 cases of coronavirus were registered in the region (+2,743 per day), including 14,095 children (+518 per day). 77,309 patients were discharged with recovery (+3......

RBC Tatarstan sums up the informational results of the week, recalling the most significant events in the life of the republic Increasing incidence During the week, anti-records on the number of new cases of COVID-19 per day were updated daily in Tatarstan. On Monday, 698 of them were detected in the republic, on Friday already 996 were confirmed, on Saturday the operational headquarters reported ...

In Russia, for the first time, more than 180 thousand cases of COVID were detected per day. At the same time, the number of hospitalizations fell by 29, In Russia, over the past day, 180,071 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected , 661 people have died, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. The number of hospitalizations across the country fell by 29.3% per day, 12,749 people we...

In order to link the transferred coronavirus with the development of Alzheimer's disease, additional diagnostics are needed, in addition, for such an outcome, it is necessary to have a genetic predisposition, experts interviewed by RBC said. According to Rustem Gayfutdinov, Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of Medical Genetics, KSMU, the brain is surrounded by the...

patients and those who have been in contact with them have been eased in Russiamore than a week, you do not have to take a PCR test at discharge Russia has eased coronavirus restrictions for infected people and those who have been in contact with them. The corresponding decision of the chief sanitary doctor was published on the portal of legal information the day before, on Sunday it entered into ...

It will be possible to transfer a school class or a group in a kindergarten to remote mode if 20% or more of the children fall ill with the coronavirus, the press service of Rospotrebnadzor reported. “The basis for transferring a kindergarten group, a class or an entire educational organization to distance learning was the absence of 2......

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his wife also tested positive for coronavirus. He noted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tested positive for the coronavirus. He announced this in his Telegram channel. “The result of our test for COVID-19 , which my wife and I did after mild symptoms, was positive,” the president wrote. According to him, he was diagnosed with “omicron”, the disease is mild. “We...

The new rule does not apply to those who fell ill with coronavirus before February 6:they will have to self-isolate for two weeks In Moscow, from Sunday, the treatment period for patients with coronavirus will be reduced from 14 to seven days, provided that the patient does not have symptoms of COVID-19 . This is reported by the capital operational headquarters with reference to the decision of Ro...

Quarantine in schools and kindergartens canceled in Moscow. In the future, quarantine will be introduced only if 20% of the children in the class fall ill In Moscow, in school classes and groups in kindergartens, quarantine for coronavirus was canceled for people who had contact with patients with COVID-19, the operational headquarters for combating coronavirus reported. The headquarters explained...

About 80% of coronavirus cases in St. Petersburg are caused by the Omicron strain, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said. It is because of him that the incidence of COVID-19 in the city has been growing at a rapid pace since mid-January 2022. On February 1, in St. Petersburg, according to the federal operational headquarters, 19,234 cases of infection were detected. For comparison, a month ag...

RBC Petersburg with a selection of the most important news of the working week About 80% of coronavirus cases in St. Petersburg are caused by the Omicron strain, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said. It is because of him that the incidence of COVID-19 in the city has been growing at a rapid pace since mid-January 2......

The level of collective immunity to coronavirus in Russia decreased from 64.4 to 64.1%, the epidemiological situation worsened in 33 regions, and the spread of omicron slowed down. Relevant about the pandemic - in the RBC review February 5, 11:30 Moscow time Coronavirus Russia Moscow World +177282 (per day) 12.6 million Infected ......

In Russia, over the past day, 177,282 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected , 714 people have died, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. The number of hospitalizations across the country increased by 1.3% per day, 18,032 people were taken to hospitals. A day earlier, this figure was 17,798. At the same time, the number of those who recovered from the disease increased - 6........

A resident of Istanbul turned to the local authorities for help, as he has been in quarantine due to the coronavirus for 14 months, A Haber TV channel reports. The man's name is Muzaffer Kayasan, he is 56 years old. According to the TV channel, he became ill with COVID-19 in November 2020 and since then he has already passed 78 tests, receiving a positive result for each of them. “When we ask our ...

Those who have been ill with the omicron strain of coronavirus have fewer symptoms than after the delta strain. This was stated by Tatyana Ruzhentsova, Deputy Director for Clinical Work of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor, TASS reports. “So far, in general, it seems that after “omicron”, those who have been ill have fewer sympt...

The peak incidence of COVID-19 in Russia due to the omicron strain may occur in mid-February. This was announced by the Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Professor Natalya Pshenichnaya, RIA Novosti reports. “In the next two or three weeks, it is quite likely that Omicron will also become dominant in the regions, s...

A resident of Istanbul turned to the local authorities for help, as he has been in quarantine due to the coronavirus for 14 months, A Haber TV channel reports. The man's name is Muzaffer Kayasan, he is 56 years old. According to the TV channel, he became ill with COVID-19 in November 2020 and since then he has already passed 78 tests, receiving a positive result for each of them. “When we ask our ...

The level of herd immunity in Moscow fell by 1.6 p.p. over the week. and amounted to 63.2%, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. Last week, the figure, which includes those who recovered from COVID-19 less than six months ago, vaccinated and revaccinated, reached 64.8%. More than 7.14 million times were vaccinated with the first component in Moscow, more than 6.75 million times t...

US President Joe Biden's administration "destroyed the country" in a year of operation, former United States President Donald Trump said on the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Red Zone YouTube podcast. “Too many spheres are in a terrible state. Our country was destroyed in one year,” Trump said. Among the mistakes of the current administration, he named the withdrawal of American .........

The World Health Organization (WHO) does not exclude the request for additional information about the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V as part of the consideration of an application for its inclusion in the list of drugs recommended for emergency use. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the WHO in Geneva. The WHO confirmed receipt of data on the drug, which the organization expecte...

The more contagious subspecies of omicron VA.2, or stealth omicron, accounts for about 3% of cases of infection with this strain in Russia, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said in an interview with Naila Asker-zade on the Russia 1 TV channel. “The first version of VA.2 was identified on 13 January. Enough time has not passed, and today in our database of all Omicron strains, 3% falls on this...

The level of collective immunity to coronavirus in Russia decreased from 64.4% to 64.1% over the week, according to the website of the operational headquarters. The indicator has decreased because those who were vaccinated in the first place or had COVID-19 more than six months ago lost their immunity, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova explained. According to her, over the week, the level of ...