Vaccination plan, new bridge and transport prices

The Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov said that by mid-January 2022, at least 80% of the population of the Northern capital should be vaccinated. The mayor called these plans quite realistic. Beglov recalled that the city's vaccination centers can receive 40,000 people a day. Earlier, we recall, the Smolny HEALTH Committee planned to achieve the target figures for vaccination of the population by the end of December.

One of the main hospitals in St. Petersburg has curtailed the “covid” regime

The main building of the St. Petersburg War Veterans Hospital on Narodnaya Street has returned to receive scheduled and emergency patients. The hospital has 832 beds for non-infectious patients, the press service of the city health committee reports. The reverse reprofiling of the hospital took place against the backdrop of a decrease in the weekly number of hospitalizations, which has been recorded in St. Petersburg for the past month.

Petersburg restaurateurs reacted to the delay in the introduction of QR codes

The authorities of St. Petersburg have decided to postpone the introduction of QR codes in catering establishments and shopping and entertainment centers from December 1 to December 27. According to the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, the postponement is associated with a decrease in the incidence of CORONAVIRUS and an increase in the number of people vaccinated against the disease. “Under these conditions, we considered it possible to give the opportunity to Petersburgers, firstly, to take root, well, and then to make purchases for the New Year holidays,” the HEAD of the city said. RBC Petersburg collected the opinions of business on the installment plan provided by the authorities.

“It will kill him”: why is the introduction of QR codes in transport dangerous?

About 75% of St. Petersburg residents oppose the introduction of a ban on public transport without QR codes confirming vaccination against covid-19 (this measure was previously introduced in Tatarstan). According to the SuperJob service based on the results of a relevant opinion poll, only 14% of respondents in the city support such “antique” measures. The percentage of those approving such an initiative in the Northern capital turned out to be average for Russian cities with a population of one million, but the percentage of opponents among those surveyed was one of the highest in the country. Neither the population nor the authorities of St. Petersburg are yet ready for the "Tatarstan" scenario.

Petersburg approved the demolition of several buildings for the construction of a bridge

The St. Petersburg law on protection zones will be amended to allow the demolition of several buildings on Obukhovskaya Oborony Avenue. The proposal to allocate in the buffer zone the territory on which these buildings are located was approved by the members of the Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage under the Government of St. Petersburg. The demolition of these buildings is necessary for the construction of exits from the future Big Smolensky Bridge. We are talking about a total of eight buildings that are located in the alignment of the future bridge.