How to treat "omicron". Actual about the pandemic on December 30, the

Ministry of HEALTH included the omicron strain in the recommendations for the treatment of covid-19 , CHINA became the leader in the production and EXPORT of vaccines, the WHO predicted the imminent registration of Sputnik V. The most relevant about the covid pandemic is in the RBC review December 30, 12:00 Moscow time 2 million Infected 0 +71 (per day) 36.7 thousand Died +742418 (per day) 284.6 million Infected 0 +7771 (per day) 5.4 million Died Source: JHU,

Situation in RUSSIA

The country revealed 21,073 new cases of COVID-19 per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of infected is 10.4 million, 9.4 million people have recovered. More than 307,000 people have died. Over the past 24 hours, 926 people have died from CORONAVIRUS.

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Data on the omicron strain was included in the new version of the recommendations of the Ministry of Health for the treatment of COVID-19. The document states that “omicron”, along with “delta”, contains mutations in the genome that increase the contagiousness of the infection and reduce “the recognition of viral antigens by post-infection and post-vaccination antibodies”. Russia ranked fifth in the world in terms of production and export of coronavirus vaccines. Its share of the global market for covid vaccines is less than 3%, and China is in the lead. In the Sverdlovsk region, from December 28 to January 15, QR codes will not be checked at the entrance to catering establishments and fitness centers. Entrance to massage parlors, solariums, baths and saunas, laundries and dry cleaners will also be free. For cinemas, the QR code system was retained, while they were allowed to completely fill the halls.

Vaccination in the regions of Russia December 24 Number of vaccine doses applied per 100 population of the region* first dose second dose <30 0 30-40 0 40-50 0 50-60 0 >60 0 Created with Highmaps 5.0.10Zoom in+Zoom out- * May not be equal to the proportion of the vaccinated population. The operational headquarters includes data on revaccination in the information on vaccination with the first and second dose. At the same time, he does not specify whether people who have been revaccinated once or several times are taken into account. Sources: Coronavirus Operational Headquarters, Rosstat, RBC calculations Data for Russia i

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the registration of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine with WHO HEAD Tedros Ghebreyesus. Hans Kluge, head of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, said that the registration process for Sputnik V would soon be completed.

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Muscovites who, after arriving in Russia, did not provide the results of PCR tests through the public services website, were fined more than 28 million rubles, Rospotrebnadzor said.

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The chief physician of Kashchenko - RBC: "You can't convince categorical anti-vaxxers" Society

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Russian laboratories offer several options for testing antibodies to the COVID-19 pathogen. Which one to choose, in what cases what is needed and why it is not necessary to compare tests from different laboratories - read in the RBC material.

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The situation in the world

According to WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 279 million, of which more than 5.3 million have died.

The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases , where more than 51 million infected have been identified. India is in second place (over 34.7 million), Brazil is in third (over 22.2 million), the United Kingdom is in fourth (over 11.8 million), and Russia is in fifth . Over 9 million cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Turkey, more than 8.5 million in France.

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The US Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reduced the recommended period of self-isolation for coronavirus infection from ten to five days due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron strain.

Kazakhstan agreed with Russia on the supply of 1 million doses of the Sputnik Light vaccine in the first quarter of 2022. The first 150,000 doses should arrive in late December - early January.

A skin rash may indicate infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus, experts from the ZOE Covid Symptom application team (used to monitor symptoms of COVID-19) found out. Doctors and scientists who analyzed the application data concluded that the appearance of a rash can be considered the “fourth and key sign” of the new strain.

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