The authorities of the Moscow region allowed the extension of the autumn wave of COVID until December

A new wave of CORONAVIRUS in the Moscow region may last until December if residents do not comply with the restrictive measures taken, said the Minister of HEALTH, Deputy Prime Minister of the region Svetlana Strigunkova, TASS reports.

“Until December, we will go to fairly high figures for detection and hospitalization, if we do not take the measures that we have already taken,” the minister said.

According to her, the wave of coronavirus, which began on September 15, repeats the trend of increasing incidence last fall. The number of cases has been increasing for the seventh week already, and the number of cases is breaking records of previous waves, including the summer one, which, according to Strigunkova, was "explosive and sharp."

In the Moscow region, after the capital, a lockdown was announced on non-working days Society

The Minister of Health of the region noted that no stabilization of the situation with the incidence of covid-19 has yet been observed. At the same time, acute respiratory viral infections are spreading intensively and cases of influenza are recorded, which creates a great burden on the healthcare system. Strigunkova stressed that an ambulance in the Moscow region leaves for 11,000 calls per day, and 220,000 people come to polyclinics. These figures are twice the pre-pandemic.

According to her, more than 3.7 million residents of the Moscow region have been vaccinated against the infection (herd immunity, according to the operational headquarters, is 64.8%). Of these, 1% becomes infected with COVID-19. Among the hospitalized, the proportion of those vaccinated reaches 15%.

In Moscow and the Moscow region called the conditions for going to the theater in the days of the lockdown Society

Against the backdrop of an increase in the incidence, the authorities of the Moscow region declared the days from October 28 to November 7 non-working. During this period, catering establishments will stop working (only takeaway and delivery will work), non-food stores and shopping centers, beauty salons, fitness clubs and swimming pools, spas, baths, dental offices, and children's playrooms. Public events are also canceled, entrance to theaters and museums is allowed only for those who have been vaccinated or have been ill in the last six months.

Over the past day, 2,428 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in the Moscow region, 20 deaths and 2,116 cases of recovery, follows from the data of the operational headquarters. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 493,343 people have been infected with coronavirus in the region, 8,417 have died and another 422,881 have recovered.

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