In Russia, 33 thousand cases of COVID were detected with 1.7 thousand hospitalizations

During the day, a little more than 33 thousand new cases were detected in the country, 1.7 thousand were hospitalized, another 57 people died. At the same time, the incidence increased by 38.4% per week, the number of hospitalizations increased by 22,

In RUSSIA, 33,061 new cases of CORONAVIRUS infection have been detected over the past day, according to the statistics of the operational headquarters for combating infection.

Most cases were found in the following regions:

Moscow (5172); St. Petersburg (4410); Moscow region (1980); Samara region (850); Irkutsk region (771).

During the same period, 1704 patients were admitted to hospitals with a diagnosis of coronavirus, 57 patients died. Almost 22.3 thousand more people have recovered.

Compared to the previous week, the incidence in the country increased by 38.4%, and the number of hospitalizations increased by 22.3%, according to the operational headquarters. They noted that the rate of spread of the virus is growing in all 85 regions of Russia, and in 23 of them - faster than the national average.

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In total, during the pandemic, 19.1 million Russians became infected with the coronavirus, of which 18.3 million recovered, and more than 383 thousand died.

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The incidence of covid-19 began to decline in Russia in February this year and reached its lowest levels since the start of the pandemic by June. However, already in mid-July, after the removal of all anti-COVID restrictions at the beginning of the month, the incidence began to grow again. By August, it had grown tenfold. On August 20, more than 40 thousand people infected with COVID-19 were detected in Russia, which was a record figure since mid-March.

The HEAD of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova in mid-July explained the increase in the incidence of the spread of new mutations of the omicron strain of coronavirus. However, she clarified that in each of these cases, the disease proceeds in a less severe form than in those infected with alpha and delta strains. August 20 DIRECTOR of the Center. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg admitted that the number of cases detected per day could reach the same figures as last winter. At that time, more than 200,000 infected people were detected in Russia every day.

Against the backdrop of an increase in the incidence, some regions have begun to return previously canceled anti-COVID restrictions. The mandatory mask regime for visitors to public places has been returned in Buryatia. However, most of the regions limited themselves to recommendations to wear masks: this is what the authorities of Kuzbass, Khakassia, Tatarstan, the Nizhny Novgorod region, Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions did. At the same time, Rospotrebnadzor did not see the need to return restrictions at the federal level.