Omicron in St. Petersburg, rising prices and a new embankment

Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Povely, who oversees the cleaning of the city, said that today Smolny uses only environmentally friendly winter cleaning methods, completely abandoning reagents that could speed up this process.

Omicron is already in St. Petersburg: why is it dangerous and will the vaccine help?

In two Petersburgers who returned from the UAE and the Dominican Republic, doctors identified an omicron strain of CORONAVIRUS. This was reported to RBC in the press service of the department of Rospotrebnadzor in St. Petersburg. The department added that both patients are isolated - they were placed in individual boxes in the infectious diseases hospital.

Scientists note that the omicron strain is more infectious than previous strains of coronavirus. The effectiveness of existing vaccines against it remains in question.

In St. Petersburg, prices for travel and housing and communal services will increase

The Government of St. Petersburg has approved new tariffs for public transport and housing and communal services. Prices will rise from January 1, 2022, Smolny officials said. Kirill Polyakov, chairman of the Smolny Transport Committee, announced the increase in the fare. According to him, a trip to the metro using the Plantain card will become more expensive by 4 rubles (45 rubles), a trip by land transport will cost 40 rubles.

Hatred of the place: what are the psychological roots of terrorist attacks in schools

After the terrorist attack, organized by a former student of an Orthodox gymnasium in Serpukhov near Moscow, RBC Petersburg asked experts about what technical means would effectively prevent such incidents. The editors' interlocutors spoke about technological innovations useful for protecting schools, but agreed that the main solutions to the problem lie in the psychological plane. What are the internal "springs" of such tragedies and how to ensure the prevention of the so-called "shooting", said the founder of the country's first psychological assistance service for adolescents, psychotherapist and business coach Yevgeny Kreslavsky.

Doctors called drugs that increase the level of antibodies to covid-19

Petersburg presented the results of a six-month study on the dynamics of the level of specific antibodies (IgG) in people who have recovered from coronavirus. A study called "Response" was conducted by the laboratory service "Helix" and the Military Medical Academy. S. M. Kirov. Among the main results of the work are confirmation of the hypothesis that antibodies to COVID-19 persist in women longer than in men; and the conclusion about the effectiveness of hormone therapy in terms of increasing the level of antibodies. With regard to the latter conclusion, the experts with whom RBC Petersburg spoke expressed serious doubts.