In Russia, for the first time since mid-March, more than 40 thousand cases of COVID were detected.

3,450 people were hospitalized per day, which is 3% more than on August 19. The largest number of cases was recorded in Moscow and St. Petersburg. More than 1 thousand

Over the past day, 40 thousand new cases of CORONAVIRUS infection have been detected in RUSSIA. This was announced by the federal operational headquarters in TELEGRAM.

The last time more than 40 thousand cases of coronavirus infection in Russia were recorded on March 14, then 41,055 infected were identified.

The largest number of new cases was detected in Moscow - 8,259, St. Petersburg - 4,399 and the Moscow Region - 3,093. More than a thousand cases of coronavirus were recorded in the Krasnodar Territory (1,413), the Rostov Region (1,232) and the Leningrad Region (1,051). ).

In just one day, 3,450 people were hospitalized, which is 3% more than on August 19. Also, 24.2 thousand people were discharged after undergoing treatment. During the day, 69 people died from covid-19 .

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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, in July, the incidence began to rise again, and by August it had increased tenfold. Over the previous day, for the first time since March, more than 37 thousand people infected with COVID-19 were detected in Russia, another 65 people died.

The HEAD of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said in mid-July that the proportion of new variants of the omicron strain of coronavirus is growing in Russia: 3.8% of the total number of sequences were attributed to the BA.1 line of the genovariant, 56.13% to the BA.2 line, 56.13% to the lines BA.4/BA.5 - 38.86%. However, according to her, they occur in a less severe form than the alpha and delta strains.

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Earlier on August 20, the WHO European Office warned that transmission of the Omicron BA.5 strain variant in the eastern part of the European Region, which includes Russia , is accelerating despite a decrease in the number of infections and deaths, which is "a cause for general concern."

The experts specified that the transmission of the virus is accelerating in the countries of Eastern Europe, as well as in the Balkans, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

DIRECTOR of the Center Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg admitted that the number of cases of COVID-19 infection detected per day in Russia could reach the indicators of last winter “with the mass character that new types of “omicron” give. At the same time, he expressed hope that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 detected per day would not reach the winter season.