Weekend offer. The latest about the pandemic on October 19

Putin was offered to repeat the long weekend in the country, the Moscow City Hall is discussing the return of QR codes, in 2021 more than 1,100 doctors and nurses died from covid. The most relevant about the pandemic is in the RBC review October 19, 11:45 Moscow time CORONAVIRUS RUSSIA Moscow World +33740 (per day) 8.1 million Infected 0 +1015 (per day) 225.3 thousand Died +5700 (per day) 1 ,

Situation in Russia

The country revealed 33,740 new cases of covid-19 per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of infected is more than 8 million. In total, more than 7 million people recovered, more than 225 thousand died. 1015 deaths were recorded per day (a new record since the beginning of the pandemic).

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Due to the aggravation of the epidemic situation, QR codes or mandatory vaccination certificates for attending public events and public places have already been introduced by Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, Perm Territory, Bashkiria, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Tatarstan, Mordovia, Karelia, Komi, as well as Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Kaliningrad, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Vologda, Smolensk, Amur, Pskov, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Ivanovo, Volgograd, Voronezh, Arkhangelsk, Kursk, Leningrad regions, Sevastopol and other regions. Which subjects are tightening restrictions and introducing QR codes - in the materials of RBC.

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Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova proposed to declare non-working days from October 30 to November 7 due to an increase in the incidence, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin supported her initiative. Proposals on this issue will be submitted to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, October 20.

The Moscow City Hall is discussing the possibility of introducing QR codes into theaters and sports facilities, an interlocutor close to the city authorities told RBC. According to him, the same plans exist for shopping centers, museums and restaurants.

The number of doctors who died in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in Russia in the first half of 2021 amounted to 1,100 people, said Andrey Makarov, chairman of the State Duma budget committee. According to him, 485 doctors and nurses died from COVID-19 in 2020. “There was no vaccine in 2020. Today, this vaccine exists, and the number of dead doctors is increasing and increasing,” Makarov said. He believes that the problem is the slow pace of vaccination.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced new restrictions in the capital. They mainly concern elderly Muscovites over 60 who have not been vaccinated and have not had COVID-19. They are in self-isolation until February 25. The mayor ordered employers to transfer at least 30% of the total number of employees and all workers over 60 years of age or suffering from chronic diseases to remote work.

Experts interviewed by RBC assessed the possible impact on the country's economy of a long weekend, which the operational headquarters proposed to introduce. According to the current production calendar, November 4-7, 2021 should be days off anyway. Adding three non-working days to the November holidays will not have a noticeable impact on economic activity, RBC interlocutors say. However, the situation may change if the authorities decide to introduce more stringent quarantine measures.

Due to the increase in the incidence of COVID-19, budget expenditures to combat the epidemic increased from 2 to 3.6 billion rubles. per day, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.

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.

The rate of spread of coronavirus in Russia October 18 Weekly growth rate of new cases, %. Week to week comparison.
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The situation in the world

According to WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 240.6 million, of which more than 4.8 million have died.

The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases , where more than 44.4 million infected have been identified. India is in second place (34 million), Brazil is in third (21.6 million), the United Kingdom is in fourth (8.4 million), and Russia is in fifth , according to WHO data. More than 7.6 million cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Turkey, more than 6.8 million in France. Latvia ranks first in the world in terms of the incidence of coronavirus per million inhabitants. The country is under lockdown until mid-November. President of Belarus ALEXANDER LUKASHENKOreprimanded officials because they tightened control over compliance with the mask regime, began to fine Belarusians and discuss the introduction of compulsory vaccination. “If you calmly go to the president, then why are you mocking people? Indeed, not a single person has ever come to me in muzzles, they didn’t ask if they were vaccinated or not, they didn’t do PCR tests, ”he said. In Ukraine, 538 people died from coronavirus per day, which became a record daily death rate since the beginning of the pandemic.

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