Registered a drug for COVID. Actual about the pandemic on December 23

In RUSSIA, a drug for CORONAVIRUS "MIR 19" was registered, how quickly "omicron" can appear, why WHO does not recommend vaccinating all adolescents. The most relevant about the covid pandemic is in the RBC review December 22, 12:00 Moscow time Coronavirus Russia Moscow World +25264 (per day) 10.3 million Infected 0 +1020 (per day) 300.3 thousand

Situation in Russia

The country revealed 25,264 new cases of covid-19 per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of infected is 10.2 million, 9 million people have recovered. More than 300 thousand people have died. Over the past day, 1020 people have died from coronavirus.

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The incidence of COVID-19 in Russia has dropped to a minimum since October 6. The Ministry of HEALTH has registered a drug for the treatment of coronavirus "MIR 19", developed by FMBA. it was tested in the red zone of hospitals in patients with moderate severity of COVID-19. The drug has shown effectiveness in comparison with standard therapy, it is planned to be used for treatment in hospitals. Russian President Vladimir Putin remains at very high levels of antibodies to COVID-19 after revaccination and the use of a nasal vaccine, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. In Moscow, the validity of QR codes for recovered patients was extended to a year. The Russian authorities are studying the experience of other countries in introducing fines for refusing to be vaccinated against coronavirus, said the HEAD of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova.

Vaccination in regions of Russia Number of doses of vaccine applied per 100 population of the region* first dose second dose *May not be equal to the share of the vaccinated population. The operational headquarters includes data on revaccination in the information on vaccination with the first and second dose. At the same time, he does not specify whether people who have been revaccinated once or several times are taken into account. Sources: Coronavirus Operational Headquarters, Rosstat, RBC calculations Data for Russia i

The scientific divisions of Rospotrebnadzor have developed a test that can be used to find out whether a person with coronavirus is infected with the Omicron strain or not. Now the work of the test system is being tested. Symptoms of the "omicron" disease may appear the next day after infection, said the deputy DIRECTOR of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. G.N. Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor Tatyana Ruzhentsova. The rapid increase in the number of infections in some countries indicates a shorter incubation period for the omicron compared to the delta strain, she said.

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The capital's businessmen were able to compensate for the revenue lost during non-working days in November for two or three weeks, says Vladimir Yefimov, deputy mayor of Moscow for economic policy and property and land relations. According to him, on non-working days there was a decrease in revenue by more than two times, and in a number of industries it reached 80%.

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The rate of spread of coronavirus in Russia 20 December Weekly growth rate of new cases, %. Week to week comparison.
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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.

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The situation in the world

According to WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 275 million, of which more than 5.3 million have died.

The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases , where more than 50.5 million infected have been identified. India is in second place (more than 34.7 million), Brazil is third (more than 22.2 million), the UK is fourth (more than 11.5 million), and Russia is fifth (more than 10.2 million). Over 9 million cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Turkey, more than 8.4 million in France.

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The World Health Organization does not recommend vaccinating all children and adolescents against coronavirus, as the likelihood of a severe course of the disease in these age groups is small. At the same time, in some countries of the world, there is not enough vaccine even for those at risk, the WHO notes.

The omicron strain of coronavirus will become the dominant variant of COVID-19 in the US in the near future, warned the country's leading infectious disease specialist, director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci.

In Israel, against the backdrop of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron strain, the fifth wave of coronavirus began, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.

Since December 20, Germany considers the UK a zone of spread of coronavirus mutations and will restrict the entry of people from the kingdom into its territory.

In the UK, there was a scandal due to the publication of photos with Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a party during the lockdown period. The meeting took place in May 2020, when the most stringent restrictions were in place in the UK and it was impossible to meet more than two at a time.

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