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The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) has prepared proposals to the government on the development of the market for modern agricultural and food technologies in Russia. In particular, the union proposed to provide preferential loans to projects for the development and production of alternative food products (created from insect protein or vegetable proteins), to compensate t...

Specialists will evaluate the consequences of reducing the food supply after accounting for the Amur tigers. The number of wild boars, which serve as the main source of food for Amur tigers in the Far East, has been halved due to African swine fever, First Deputy Minister of Forestry of the Primorsky Territory Alexei Surovy said on Wednesday. To assess the consequences of a reduction in the food s...

Inspectors revealed almost 50,000 violations of the mask regime in public transport in Moscow in November. This was reported to RBC by the head of the State Institution "Organizer of Transportation" Vladislav Sultanov. Checks on compliance with sanitary standards in transport continue, Sultanov added. Clothing and accessories are not considered protective equipment, he continued. A scarf, scarf or...

The new strain of coronavirus, omicron, descends into the lungs faster than others, causing pneumonia in three to five days. This was reported to Izvestia by a virologist and immunologist, head of the Yekaterinburg Research Institute of Viral Infections of the Vector Center of Rospotrebnadzor Alexander Semenov. “What is bad about the Omicron strain is that, just like Delta, it is more tropic, that...

To carry out this work, a team of USAU scientists led by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences O.A. Bykova received a grant from the Russian Science Foundation. The study is designed for 2022-2023. The financial support of the Russian Science Foundation will amount to 1.5 million rubles a year. During this time, agricultural scientists are studying the genetic profiles of Black-and-White cattle to ident...

Under the new rules, a negative PCR test result will be valid for two days. Previously, it was valid for three days. The period of validity of negative results of a PCR test for coronavirus in Russia has been reduced from 72 hours to 48, follows from the decision of the chief sanitary doctor, published on the portal of legal information. The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, announced these ch...

The spread of a new variant of the virus with an "unprecedented" number of mutations raises fears that it could "escape" the protection provided by existing vaccines,and exacerbate the rise in COVID cases The findings that at a quarantined hotel in Hong Kong, a visitor contracted the omicron coronavirus strain from a guest in another room, even though they had not been in contact with each other, ...

The first two cases of infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus have been confirmed in Croatia, according to the website of the Croatian Institute of Public Health. The report says that both patients have not left Croatia recently. Presumably, they became infected during a business meeting involving foreigners. Everyone who was present at this meeting, as well as relatives of the sick, was...

The organization receives data that those infected with the omicron strain carry COVID-19easier, but scientists do not yet have enough data to confirm this The World Health Organization (WHO) is still in the process of collecting data on the course of the COVID-19 disease in people infected with the omicron strain, WHO expert Maria van Kerkhove said in an interview with CBS. So far, there is a tre...

From 04:00 on December 7, anyone over the age of 12 entering the UK will be required to submit a negative PCR or LFD test, the British government has said. Tests must be done before leaving for the UK. A day earlier, from December 6, Nigeria will be added to the "red list" of countries for travel. That is, anyone who has been in Nigeria in the last ten days will be banned from entering. The ban do...

for coronavirus COVID-19 testsnine Russians who arrived from South Africa were positive. Rospotrebnadzor is still establishing which strain the Russians fell ill with. At the end of November, a new strain of coronavirus "omicron" was discovered in South Africa Nine Russians who returned from South Africa tested positive for the coronavirus and were hospitalized, Rospotrebnadzor said. What strain t...

The concern is the speed of spread of this variant, said Botswana scientist Sikhulile Moyo, one of the first to pay attention to the new strain. The rate at which mutations occur in the omicron strain of coronavirus is of concern, said Sikhulile Moyo, a scientist at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute. “We are still trying to understand how such a large number of mutations could have occurred in t...

The heads of state also talked about the Russia -Africa summit, BRICS and trade and economic cooperation Cyril Ramaphosa and Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa, the Kremlin press service reported. The heads of the two countries agreed to "join forces in the fight against the pandemic" of the coronavirus, "especially in ...

Putin instructed to develop a plan to prevent the spread of "omicron", which region of Russia became the leader in herd immunity, in Berlin they banned dancing in nightclubs. Relevant about the pandemic - in the RBC review December 4, 12:00 Moscow time Coronavirus Russia Moscow World +32974 (per day) 9.8 million Infected ......

The increased danger of the omicron strain for those who have recovered from the coronavirus, which was identified by South African scientists, raises questions and needs more detailed research. This was stated by Professor of Virology, Head of the Laboratory of Especially Dangerous Infections of the Federal Research Center for Fundamental and Translational Medicine Alexander Chepurnov and Scienti...

The participants in the study were people who were initially vaccinated with drugs from AstraZeneca and Pfizer Scientists in the UK came to the conclusion that drugs from six manufacturers are suitable for revaccination of vaccinated AstraZeneca or Pfizer. According to the results of the study, it turned out that all of them allow you to increase the level of antibodies, reports Bloomberg. A total...

The spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has regions that practically do not change during mutations, antibodies to them will be effective against all strains, the scientists said.But experts doubt the significance of this discovery. When analyzing antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that were produced in people who were seriously ill with COVID-19 , Chinese molecular biologists discovered a...

In the Netherlands, the omicron strain of coronavirus was identified in samples collected before the first known case of infection with this mutation in the country, the National Institute of Health of the Netherlands said. The researchers found the omicron strain in samples taken on November 19 and 23. It is not yet known whether the people who passed the tests have traveled to South Africa. The ...

Lectures and practical classes for farmers are conducted by leading scientists of the Ural State Agrarian University. Students of the "School of the farmer" of the Russian Agricultural Bank in the Sverdlovsk region took an in-depth course in breeding and genetics of farm animals. We learned about new methods of accelerated selection, got acquainted with modern equipment and technology of artificia...

According to the scientist, if the information about the transition of the disease to a severe stage in three to four days is confirmed, then the epidemiological situation will worsen. Gamalei, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, If the Omicron strain accelerates the severe course of COVID-19 , then the epidemiological situation in the country may worsen. This was stated by the...

Veronika Skvortsova The Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) is ready to make a test system to detect a new strain of coronavirus in nine days. This was stated by the head of the FMBA Veronika Skvortsova on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel. “Now we will very quickly make a kit for this omicron, because the design takes three to four days, five days to create this test system itself,” sa...

Dietary nitrates, which are used by athletes to enrich the body with oxygen, were proposed by Dutch scientists to be used in pig breeding. A group of scientists from Wageningen University published their work on the effects of dietary nitrates on pig health in Animals 2021 on the MDPI portal. “Stillborn piglets are a big loss and a problem in industrial pig production. For example, in superfertile...

Egypt remains open to Russian tourists, the government and the operational headquarters are not considering the possibility of suspending air traffic. This was reported by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), citing a source close to the Federal Air Transport Agency. “We all remember that the “British strain” that scared everyone so quickly turned out to be not so scary, and the UK ...

To protect against the new strain of coronavirus “omicron”, the unvaccinated need to be vaccinated, and the vaccinated need a booster (additional) dose of the vaccine. This was stated by the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci , reports NBC. “It is absolutely essential that unvaccinated people be vaccinated and that vaccinated people receive a booster...

Due to the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus in southern Africa, the Kuwaiti authorities will temporarily stop direct flights from nine countries in the region, government spokesman Tareq al-Mizrem said, KUNA reported. The country will stop accepting direct commercial flights from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zambia and Malawi from 28 November...

The source of the emergence of the omicron strain of coronavirus could be an infected patient who did not fully recover from the previous version of COVID-19 , Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the technical group of the emergency diseases division of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the Financial Times newspaper. An immunocompromised patient infected with coronavirus, who was not completely cu...

A new omicron strain of coronavirus may be more dangerous than previous versions, Melita Vujnovich, representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia, said on the Soloviev.Live program on YouTube. “He looks like this now, you have to wait a bit, because “beta” behaved like that, had such, say, opportunities,” said the WHO representative, responding to the remark of the host of the pr...

85 passengers on two planes that arrived in Amsterdam from South Africa have tested positive for coronavirus. This was reported by the company GGD Kennemerland, which conducted PCR testing of passengers on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Health. “Due to the worrying omicron coronavirus strain, we are currently testing passengers on two flights from South Africa. 13.6% of positive results (85 infec...

Scientists of the Center Gamalei will test the effectiveness of the drug against the new SARS-CoV-2 variant and, if necessary, replace the strain in the vaccine. Specialists of the Center Gamaleya, if necessary, can adapt the Sputnik V vaccine to a new strain of coronavirus B.1.1.529, which was found in southern Africa. This was stated to RBC by the head of the center Alexander Gintsburg. “When we...

A passenger who returned to Israel from South Africa was diagnosed with a new strain of coronavirus B.1.1.529, also called South African. The Haaretz newspaper writes about this, citing data from the Israeli Ministry of Health. “A passenger returning from Malawi tested positive for a [new] strain of the virus. In addition, the ministry suspects that two more passengers may have been infected with ...