COVID-19

Viktor Ryzhakov Reports that the artistic director of Sovremennik, Viktor Ryzhakov, were hospitalized are false, RBC was told in the theater's press service. “This is false information, soon a comment will be published on all our resources,” the press service of Sovremennik said. The hospitalization of the 61-year-old artistic director was previously reported by the Mash Telegram channel. Accordin...

240 cases of COVID-19identified in the Novosibirsk region per day. According to the operational headquarters, as of the morning of January 20, 99,838 cases of coronavirus were registered in the region (+240 per day), including 11,398 children. 71,160 patients were discharged with recovery (+357 per day). Thirteen patients died: men aged 55, 56, 67, 67, 68, 7......

The symptoms of "omicron" are similar to the symptoms of SARS, in both cases, treatment should be started from the first days of the disease, Andrey Kryukov, the chief otorhinolaryngologist of Moscow, told Argumenty i Fakty. According to the otolaryngologist, the symptoms of the new strain are very similar to the common cold - this is nasal congestion, pain and sore throat, which can be treated in...

Those who smoked for a long time, the risk of a severe course of coronavirus infection is almost doubled, NHK reported, citing the National Research Center for International Health of Japan. Scientists analyzed the relationship between smoking and the risk of serious illness in 17.6 thousand patients aged 2......

In the Perm Territory, the duration of the QR code for those who have recovered from coronavirus has been doubled - from six months to a year. Such changes were made to the Governor's decree "On measures implemented in connection with the threat of the spread of a new coronavirus infection." The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The measure is technical i...

Coronavirus international travel restrictions do no good but continue to contribute to the "economic and social stress" that countries are experiencing.consider in the WHO emergency committee A committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that countries lift or ease restrictions on international travel. The committee said in a statement that the restrictions "continue to contri...

Restrictions due to COVID-19 The authorities of the Kaliningrad region recommended that employers transfer up to 50% of the staff to a remote work format. At a meeting of the operational headquarters, it was decided to transfer the MFC of the regional center to the mode of operation by appointment, so that employees could work in call center 122. Renaming the Regional Duma The deputies of the Kali...

Bill Gates The world could face pandemics much more serious than COVID-19 , Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said. It is reported by the Financial Times. “Spending billions to prevent trillions in economic damage and save tens of billions of lives is pretty good insurance,” Gates said. While the delta and omicron variants of the coronavirus have become some of the most contagious viruses, the worl...

ban that lasted more than a yearon the reception of Russian fish led to multimillion-dollar losses of pollock miners.But they were able to increase the production of more expensive products - fish fillet and minced meat by one and a half times. Commercial pollock fishing In 2021, restrictions on the supply of Russian fish to China cost Russian pollock fishing companies about $4......

The heads of Kaliningrad companies are recommended to transfer up to 50% of employees to a remote mode of work. Governor Anton Alikhanov stated this at a meeting of the operational headquarters for combating coronavirus infection on Wednesday, January 19. At the meeting, it was decided to allocate additional funds for incentive payments to doctors making house calls, the purchase of necessary medi...

Wearing masks in crowded places will be recommended, the mandatory presentation of COVID-passports will be canceled. These decisions were taken by the authorities on the basis of information that From next week, the UK will lift the strict restrictions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic , Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced during a speech in Parliament, SkyNews reports. In particular, th...

In the Stavropol Territory, there is an increase in the incidence of coronavirus. For the first time in two years, 621 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were identified per day . The reason for the new wave of the pandemic is the spread of "omicron", which has become the dominant strain in the region. This was announced at a briefing by the Minister of Health of the region Vladimir Kolesnikov. The ...

Sberbank will transfer up to 70% of employees in Moscow to remote work, RBC was told in the press service of the bank. The decision was made in connection with the "rapid spread" of the new strain of coronavirus "omicron" and will come into force on January 20. The remote transfer will affect employees of the Moscow offices of the bank. Sberbank expects that the measure will help minimize the incr...

For the second day in a row, 111 new cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in Tatarstan. 21 people hospitalized According to the headquarters, out of 111 new cases, nine are imported, the rest are contact cases. 21 people have been hospitalized, 90 are being treated at home. Most of the new cases have been confirmed in Kazan (72) and Naberezhnye Chelny (21). The total number of cases...

As China buys more lamb from New Zealand, the EU market will increase demand for Irish lamb. IFA Sheep Chairman Sean Dennehy said the market conditions that have supported the sheep trade for the past two years look set to continue into 2022. Mutton consumption in China has increased by 9% since 2018, he said. This change in supply structure resulted in New Zealand filling only 46% of its EU quota...

As of January 19, 730 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the Krasnodar Territory. The number of cases has increased in 41 municipalities, according to the data of the operational headquarters of the region. Most cases in Krasnodar - 295. In Sochi, 61 cases were confirmed, in the Tuapse district - 36, in Armavir - 32, in Yeisk - 3......

Over the past day in the Perm region, coronavirus infection was detected in 478 people. The region is ranked 9th in terms of the daily increase in patients with COVID among the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Of the new patients, 79 are vaccinated. During this period , 12 people died from COVID-19 . Over the entire period of the pandemic in the region, 7,683 patients died from coro...

Over the past day, 1,208 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District. This was reported on the Stopcoronavirus.rf website. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of patients with covid in the North Caucasus Federal District has amounted to 371,......

In the Rostov region, another 560 cases of COVID-19 infection were recorded per day . Such data are provided by the information policy department of the Don government. According to Rospotrebnadzor, the cumulative total of confirmed coronavirus cases reached 201,250. For the entire period, 181,624 people recovered in the region, 25......

235 cases of COVID-19identified in the Novosibirsk region per day. According to the operational headquarters, on the morning of January 19, 99,598 cases of coronavirus were registered in the region (+235 per day), including 11,379 children. 70,803 patients were discharged with recovery (+343 per day). Fifteen patients died: men aged 62, 65, 7......

RCCH A focus of COVID-19 was detected in the neonatal pathology department of the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital in Ufa . The mother of one of the patients was allegedly the source of the spread of the infection, her diagnosis was confirmed by the results of a PCR test. The department is closed for quarantine. This was reported to RBC Ufa in the regional Ministry of Health. “Mother A. was...

The awards ceremony will take place this year on April 3 in Las Vegas, having previously been postponed for the second year in a row due to fears of the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus. This is stated on the website of the award. “We are excited to bring the Grammys to Las Vegas for the first time and put on a world class show. Since we announced the postponement of the original show d...

Australia, Israel, Egypt and 19 other countries were included in the list of countries where it is not recommended to visit due to the spread of the coronavirus. The list of states is compiled by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , reports The USA Today. The list also includes Albania, Argentina, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Virgin Islands, Cape Verde, Grenada,...

COVID by the beginning of 2023 will proceed in a very mild form or the number of infections will greatly decrease, according to the rector of Moscow State University Sadovnichy and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences,First President of Kyrgyzstan Akaev Askar Akaev Moscow State University scientists conducted a mathematical study of the development of the coronavirus pandemic and came to...

According to Rospotrebnadzor, almost 80% of those who fell ill with "omicron" in Moscow did not leave the city and region, the rest of the cases were imported. In total, 1.2 thousand cases were identified in the city. In Moscow, 1,241 cases of infection with the Omicron strain of COVID-19 were registered , the Moscow department of Rospotrebnadzor reported. According to the agency, 78.6% of those i...

Residents of the Krasnodar Territory in 2021, according to the unified system of digital marking and tracking of goods "Honest Sign", spent 3.3 billion rubles on coronavirus medicines. This was reported to RBC Krasnodar at the Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies (CRPT). With such a volume of spending on drugs, the Krasnodar Territory took third place in Russia. Muscovites and resid...

Social institutions of the republic at the moment have not yet switched to a closed mode of operation. The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Republic of Tatarstan explained that decisions are made in the regions of the republic, As RBC Tatarstan was told in the press service of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Protection of the Republic of Tatarstan, today the...

According to the Rospotrebnadzor in the Republic of Tatarstan, 9 cases of infection with the omicron-strain of coronavirus are imported. In three patients, the disease proceeds without symptoms, According to the press service of the Tatarstan department of Rospotrebnadzor, all the first 11 cases of infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus were laboratory confirmed. They were identified at ...

Reducing the period of isolation for patients with COVID-19 to seven days is due to the peculiarities of the omicron strain, said in an interview with the Govorit Moskva radio station, a virologist of the Center. Gamaleya Anatoly Altshtein. “The incubation period has been reduced for this virus and the course too. Apparently, we have data that in seven days the vast majority of people will not hav...

In St. Petersburg, more than a quarter of citizens' appeals related to COVID-19 were not considered on time , Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting of the coordinating council under the government to combat coronavirus. “In St. Petersburg, out of almost 1.5 thousand applications for vaccination or treatment for coronavirus, more than a quarter were not considered on time,” he said. Go...