Beglov: "Petersburg has overcome the fifth wave of the pandemic"

According to the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, the city has overcome the fifth wave of CORONAVIRUS. The mayor stated this at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Smolny press service reports.

“At the most difficult moment, there were more than 200,000 sick people. To date, we are coping with this situation: we have strengthened the primary link, sent the necessary equipment there, and made a reconstruction,” said Alexander Beglov. According to the governor, over the past week, the number of new cases of coronavirus in St. Petersburg has decreased by 30.8%, the number of hospitalized patients - by 34.5%. The decline in incidence has allowed a number of medical facilities to return to normal operation, which had previously been repurposed to receive patients with coronavirus. We are talking, among others, about the hospital of St. George, the hospital of St. Olga, as well as the maternity hospital No. 16.

According to Smolny on March 1, on February 28, 193 people were hospitalized with covid-19 in St. Petersburg. For comparison, at the beginning of February, 600-700 people with COVID-19 were admitted to city hospitals per day. The weekly incidence of coronavirus in St. Petersburg has almost halved in two weeks: last week from February 21 to February 27, 55,577 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the city, and 103,260 cases in the week from February 14 to February 20.

At the same time, mortality from infection in St. Petersburg has increased. Last week, an average of 80 people died from COVID-19 per day - the last time the mortality rate rose to this level in November 2021 against the backdrop of the fourth wave of coronavirus. Then the DIRECTOR of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Medical Research at the European University, epidemiologist Anton Barchuk noted that mortality usually increases with some delay after the increase in the incidence. “Some time must pass after the infection is detected, the condition worsens until some outcome is either recovery or death,” he said.