COVID-19

Construction site in Tuymazy The new COVID hospital in Tuymazy, whose construction started in December 2021, will be launched in February. This was announced by the head of Bashkiria Radiy Khabirov on Thursday, February 3. “The number of cases of coronavirus continues to rise in the republic. The healthcare system is able to hospitalize everyone who needs it. Our potential is up to 1......

Switzerland lifts part of the coronavirus restrictions from February 3 due to the fact that COVID-19 is becoming an endemic disease, the country's Federal Council said in a decision. “The Federal Council believes that the time has come to once again relax measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. The decision was made to lift the work-from-home requirement immediately and introduce ...

The Ministry of Health has changed the instructions for the Sputnik V vaccine, a more contagious Omicron was found in Russia, an increase in the incidence of children, European countries are lifting restrictions.The latest about the pandemic is in the RBC review on February 2, 11:40 Moscow time Coronavirus Russia Moscow World +141883 (per day) 12.1 million Infected ......

The incidence of coronavirus in Russia will increase in the near future. 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. This is due to the fact that the Russian regions are at different stages of the epidemic rise in the incidence, she noted. In add...

The expanded team of Russia at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing included 24 athletes from the Perm Territory, and 9 of them were in the main team. This was reported by the press service of the regional government. Key athletes included: Maria Istomina (cross-country skiing), Evgeny Klimov (ski jumping), Tatiana Ivanova and Ekaterina Katnikova (luge), and the full Russian freestyle team, includi...

Why it is important to competently part with an employee, what pitfalls can arise with a negative parting, and what needs to be taken into account,so that the dismissal goes smoothly for both parties - an expert of the Grebennikov publishing house shares instructions At the beginning of April 2020, the American service for renting electric scooters Bird fired 3......

According to scientists, the lockdown in the spring of 2020 was appropriate, since there was no alternative before vaccination began, the COVID-19 disease chain had to be interrupted Decisions on lockdowns at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 were justified, according to Russian scientists interviewed by RBC. They commented on the findings from the Johns Hopkins University study th...

The incidence of COVID-19 in Russia has doubled over the week compared to a week earlier, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said at a meeting of the coordinating council for combating COVID-19 under the government. The broadcast was conducted by the TV channel "Russia 24". “According to the results of the past fourth week, the [COVID-19 incidence rate] amounted to 468.5 per 1......

Alexander Maslyakov TV presenter Alexander Maslyakov has contracted the coronavirus and because of this will miss the first games of the new season of KVN. His video message was published in the Instagram of the program. “COVID-19 is sneaking up on me for the second time, and they tell me that I need to stay at home for a while,” Maslyakov said. He noted that the game cannot take place without a h...

The effectiveness of the vaccine against the Wuhan strain was 91%, and six months later, in the conditions of the dominance of the "delta" - 70.5%, according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health The effectiveness of the vaccine "Sputnik V" from the Center. Gamaleya under conditions of dominance of the SARS-CoV-2 "delta" strain six months after vaccination is 7......

In Bashkiria, Moscow, Mari El and the Rostov region, cases of the disease with a subspecies of "omicron" BA.2 were detected. This was announced by the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova at a meeting of the coordinating council under the government to combat COVID-19 on Wednesday, February 2. The head of Rospotrebnadzor noted that over the past six weeks, the number of cases of the “omicro...

Pig farmers in the UK fear ruin as a shortage of butchers delays slaughter. The British pig industry has said it is in danger of collapse after an exodus of Eastern European workers led to a shortage of butchers and more than 170,000 pigs being slaughtered behind. The National Pig Breeding Association and the National Farmers Union said the emergency visa measures meant to mitigate the effects of ...

The number of hospitalizations, as well as the number of recorded cases of infection in Moscow, increased over the week, but the dynamics allows us to hope for a stabilization of the situation,considers the mayor The dynamics of the incidence of COVID-19 in Moscow is declining, which gives hope that the capital has reached a plateau, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at a meeting of the presidium of the ...

In the future, it will be necessary to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually, Maryana Lysenko, head physician of the City Clinical Hospital No. 52 in Moscow, told reporters. “Certainly, in the long term, I think that we will live in an annual vaccination regime, as it happens during a respiratory virus,” she said. Lysenko added that for immunity, it is enough to be vaccinated with Russian.........

Coronavirus infection due to mutations has lost the ability to penetrate into the lung tissue. This was stated by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova in an interview with RIA Novosti. “In search of the most correct form, the most correct amino acid composition, the virus lost one of the receptors that provided its tropism or the ability to penetrate into the lung tissue,” said Popova. In Rospo...

The Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Kama Region, Vitaly Kostarev, signed an order on restrictive measures aimed at preventing the spread of influenza and SARS in Perm. From February 3 to February 9, the head of the city administration, Aleksey Dyomkin, was ordered to suspend the educational process in full-time format in educational institutions (schools, secondary vocational schools, additiona...

The Ministry of Labor recommended maximum remoteness, COVID-passports were canceled in Georgia, the coronavirus lost its ability to penetrate the lungs, fines were introduced in Italy for the unvaccinated. Relevant about the pandemic - in the RBC review February 01, 11:30 Moscow time Coronavirus Russia Moscow World +125836 (per day) 12 million Infected ......

The Omicron strain of coronavirus has practically conquered Moscow and St. Petersburg - about 80% of cases of COVID-19 infection in these cities are caused by this strain, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “Today we see that already about 80% of all identified, sequenced viruses, coronaviruses are “omicron”. Here he has practically already conquered his t...

Those vaccinated against coronavirus are not required to observe weekly self-isolation in case of contact with the sick, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, RIA Novosti reports. "No, it doesn `t need! This is our rule! Such isolation is not indicated for vaccinated and recovered contacts if they do not have symptoms, ”she said. Popova pointed out that there are a large number of studies ...

According to Governor Vadim Shumkov, the beneficiaries of the pandemic must be held accountable, otherwise "new trials may await the world." He compared the pandemic to a war in which people die, The coronavirus pandemic is reminiscent of war, but instead of the corporations of the military-industrial complex, “other beneficiaries earn money from it,” said Vadim Shumkov, Governor of the Kurgan Reg...

The Russian authorities are not discussing the introduction of lockdowns or other emergency measures in connection with the spread of the coronavirus. This was stated by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova in an interview with RIA Novosti. “Today we are not talking about lockdown, we are not talking about quarantine, we are not talking about some kind of emergency countermeasures,” she said. P...

The World Health Organization is concerned about the increase in deaths amid an increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 infection , WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing. “Since Omicron was first identified ten weeks ago, nearly 90 million infections have been reported to the WHO. This is more than in all of 2......

raising policemen The bonuses of Russian police officers, as well as the prospects for their promotion, will depend on whether they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, RIA Novosti reported, citing a document signed by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev. The information was also confirmed to RBC by a source in the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Take into account whether...

Mishustin suggested making it easier for Russians to go to clinics The queue near the polyclinic No. 1 of the Central City Hospital No. 7 in Yekaterinburg Primary health care is under enormous pressure due to the daily increase in the number of cases of COVID-19, so it is necessary to simplify the procedure for making an appointment with a doctor, issuing conclusions and prescriptions. This was st...

More than 500 Rostov schoolchildren became infected with COVID-19 . This was stated by the head of the administration of the Don capital Alexei Logvinenko during a meeting of the operational headquarters to combat the spread of COVID-19. “To date, 548 schoolchildren and 73 kindergarten students have become ill with coronavirus. This is less than 1%,” Logvinenko said. According to him, as of Februa...

In Nizhny Novgorod Day, 1,147 new cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed over the past day. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the Russian Federation. The total number of residents of the region who were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the pandemic exceeded 254.23 thousand people. According to the latest data, more than 228.17 thousand residents of the region have reco...

In the European Union, updated legislation on veterinary medicines has come into force, which severely limits the use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials (AMRs) in livestock and aquaculture. “The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how closely interconnected human, plant and animal health, environmental health and food security are. The clearest illustration of this connection is the silent pan...

Speaker of the St. Petersburg Parliament Alexander Belsky Deputies of the St. Petersburg parliament from United Russia turned to the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, with a request to control the situation with retail prices for PCR tests. According to the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, parliamentarians have prepared a draft resolution stating that in the p...

715 cases of COVID-19identified in the Novosibirsk region per day. According to the operational headquarters, on the morning of February 1, 104,583 cases of coronavirus were registered in the region (+715 per day), including 12,205 children. 75,503 patients recovered (+395 per day). Twelve patients died: men aged 22, 62, 65, 66, 89, 92, a girl of 7, and women aged 38, 63, 69, 86, 96. In total, 4,6...

According to the agency, Vladimir Podvalny, the founder and owner of the Velikoluksky agro-industrial holding, recently visited the enterprise. He offered Martsinkevich to leave the post of head of the head enterprise of the group of companies. It is assumed that the new director will come from St. Petersburg. Vladimir Podvalny did not respond to a request from the PLN about the reason for the res...