Reaching a plateau, “snow” traffic jams and massive bankruptcies

Petersburg has reached a plateau in the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 . This was announced by the chairman of the St. Petersburg Health Committee Dmitry Lisovets. The epidemiological situation in St. Petersburg, according to the indicators of Smolny and Rospotrebnadzor, has been improving over the past month. Over the past week, from November 22 to 28, 2,478 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in St. Petersburg; a month ago in the last week of October - 3,316.

The prosecutor's office in St. Petersburg conducts an inspection due to "snow" traffic jams

The prosecutor's office of the Pushkinsky district is checking the implementation of federal legislation on the maintenance of a section of the road on the Moscow highway in the village of Shushary in winter. This was reported by the press service of the department. Recall that a traffic jam on the Moscow Highway persisted for more than a day due to snowfall and stuck trucks.

“A disappointing forecast for the years ahead”: lawyers on the bankruptcy of individuals

By the end of 2021, the number of individuals declared bankrupt will significantly increase in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. According to the forecast of the specialists of the Financial and Legal Alliance, who analyzed the statistics of the Federal Resource, in just a year the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declares 8,114 citizens insolvent. Experts have no doubt that the upward trend will continue in 2022.

“The numbers do not fit”: what the mortality rate says about medicine in the Russian Federation

St. Petersburg medical institutions are underfunded, and much more money needs to be invested in them than is being invested now, participants in the discussion “Petersburg of our children: medicine of the near future”, organized by RBC Petersburg, said. However, they expressed confidence that a simple increase in funding will not achieve qualitative changes - if the principles of resource allocation are not made more rational, there will never be enough money. Participants in the conversation, representing medicine and its “allied” universities, charitable organizations, medical equipment suppliers, share their views on the current situation and ways to improve it.

The trend has changed on the St. Petersburg restaurant market

After the recession caused by the pandemic, the St. Petersburg catering market began to recover. This year, the number of new cafes and restaurants exceeds the number of closed establishments. At the end of the year, the industry's turnover, according to experts, will grow by almost 50% from the level of the previous year. However, the restaurateurs themselves are not too optimistic in their assessments of the situation in the industry.