The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova called for an extension of the non-working week in Russia, which was announced from March 30 to April 3 by decree of President Vladimir Putin. This will reduce the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19, Popova emphasized. However, she recalled that the incubation period of the disease is 14 days.
“The period of breaking the transmission links should also be a multiple of 14 days. But 14 days is, of course, not enough, these days should have been more, ”Popova quotes TASS.
The head of the department called Putin’s decision on a non-working week “extremely important”, but noted that the termination of restrictive measures threatens a further increase in the incidence in the country.
Popova also said that Russia, unlike a number of countries, manages to restrain the growth rate of the number of infected. According to her, now 85 Russian entities are at different stages of the development of the epidemiological situation. The head of Rospotrebnadzor explained that the absence of explosive growth in the number of cases is explained by the fact that the country takes the necessary measures in a timely manner.
In addition, she said that more than 20% of infected Russians have the disease without symptoms.
“Today, we have a high proportion of people who do not have symptoms, among those whom we have identified as a result of testing. Today, this is just over 20% of all whom we identified have no symptoms, and only 14% have symptoms, a pneumonia clinic and have a severe, moderate to severe course, ”she confirmed.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova also announced the need to extend the measures of social distance, urging them to make decisions based on the situation in each particular region. She recalled that while in ten regions the coronavirus has not been fixed.
“But you can’t relax here, because the number of regions involved in the incidence increases daily by about two,” Golikova added.
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In the meantime, the government approved the procedure for issuing disability certificates, assigning and paying temporary disability benefits to people aged 65 years and older while in quarantine.
The rules, according to the document, apply to persons observing the regime of self-isolation, with the exception of those who have been transferred to the remote mode of work, or who are on annual paid leave.
An incapacity certificate will be generated at a time for 14 calendar days from April 6 to 19 in the form of an electronic document.
According to the operational headquarters to combat the spread of coronavirus, over the last day in Russia 771 new cases of the disease were detected, 595 of them in Moscow. Thus, as of April 2, the country registered 3548 cases of COVID-19 in 76 regions.
The chief infectious disease specialist of the Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) Vladimir Nikiforov expressed the opinion that the outbreak of COVID-19 in Russia could end by summer. He stated this on the air of the Doc-Tok program on Channel One. He also added that the peak of the disease in the country will be achieved "at least in the middle of next week."
On the eve of Vladimir Putin during a meeting with government members noted that the situation with coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Russia is becoming more complicated.
“In our country as well, the situation is becoming more complicated. And the situation with the coronavirus is very difficult in the world, ”the head of state said.
He added that more than 3.317 million people are quarantined in Russia due to the spread of the disease.
Recall that after the president declared a week off from March 30 to April 3, in order to slow down the spread of infection in the country, Moscow and the Moscow region transferred citizens to a universal regime of self-isolation. Following the same measures introduced in most Russian regions.
On the eve of Putin made changes to the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code, implying liability for violation of the quarantine and dissemination of fakes about the disease, and also gave the government the authority to introduce high alert and emergency regimes in the country.
According to Stanislav Naumov, deputy head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the maintenance of public order, the nation’s self-isolation regime “is being observed quite effectively” throughout the country.
Nevertheless, the Russian police have already opened 1250 administrative cases against citizens who violate restrictive measures. The press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified that the focus is on the search for persons who have arrived from abroad and do not comply with the requirements of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare.
In the meantime, an An-124 Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft arrived in New York with humanitarian aid to help combat the coronavirus. The United States at the end of March bypassed the number of infected China and Italy - the country where the most severe epidemiological situation was noted. On March 31, the Kremlin reported that Russia, amid a difficult situation with the disease in the United States, offered American support.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, which monitors the situation with coronavirus online, the number of cases in the world exceeded 937 thousand, more than 47 thousand people died.