All constituent entities of the Russian Federation received the first consignments of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health.

“All regions received the first trial batches of the Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V) vaccine for the prevention of a new coronavirus infection, developed by the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.

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Gamalea of ​​the Ministry of Health of Russia ... In a number of regions, the vaccine is already being administered using a labeling system.

Medical workers are the priority group for vaccination, ”the message says.

According to the Federal State Information System for Monitoring the Movement of Medicines, there are more than 27 thousand labeled drug packages in circulation, and their number is increasing.

In turn, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev said that Moscow had received requests from abroad for the supply of more than 1.2 billion doses of vaccine.

At the same time, Rospotrebnadzor said that the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 all over the world is going on on a number of technological platforms.

"Development of prophylactic drugs against COVID-19 based on several technological platforms is underway: subunit, vector replicating and vector non-replicating, RNA and DNA vaccines, inactivated, live attenuated (weakened) vaccines and vaccines based on virus-like particles," RIA Novosti reported. ...

The world's first coronavirus vaccine, dubbed Sputnik V, was registered on 11 August.

At the moment, post-registration studies are being conducted.

On the eve of the Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization Hans Kluge announced his intention to promote "Sputnik V" in the world.

At the same time, by October 15, the Ministry of Health plans to complete the process of state registration of the second vaccine against COVID-19 "EpiVacCorona", developed by the State Scientific Center for Virology and Biotechnology "Vector".

Also at the stage of clinical trials is a vaccine from the Chumakov Federal Research Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Preparations.

Country situation

Over the past day, 6595 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in 84 regions of Russia (in the two days preceding this, the diagnosis was confirmed in 6431 and 6215 people).

According to the headquarters, 24% of new patients had no clinical manifestations of the disease.

As of September 24, a total of 1,128,836 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in the Russian Federation, 179,059 of them (15.86%) remain active.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, 929,829 patients (82.37%) have recovered in the country, including 6,130 in the last day.

19,948 people (1.77%) died of complications that developed against the background of COVID-19 and concomitant diseases.

Over the past day - 149.

The regions where the largest number of new cases were detected per day included Moscow (1050) and St. Petersburg (215), as well as Moscow (205), Rostov (189), Voronezh (162) and Nizhny Novgorod (160) regions.

In the capital, for the first time since June 23, the figure exceeded 1000.

Moscow remains the leader in the country in terms of the number of detected cases (280,408, of which more than 33.6 thousand are active).

According to the Department of Health of the capital, the average daily growth rate of the number of new cases of COVID-19 in two weeks is 0.3%.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, almost 44 million tests for the presence of coronavirus have been carried out in the country.

222 thousand people remain under medical supervision.

Self-isolation at home when entering the Russian Federation

On Thursday, September 24, new rules came into effect in Russia to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to the decree of Anna Popova, the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, Russian citizens arriving in the country from abroad by plane will have to be in isolation at home until they receive the results of the coronavirus test, which they must pass within three days.

"Before receiving the results of laboratory tests on COVID-19 by the PCR method (Russians who returned from abroad need to. -

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) observe the isolation regime at the place of residence (stay)," the document says.

At the same time, employers are obliged to inform their employees traveling abroad about the new standards. 

According to Maya Lomidze, executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, the innovation will be monitored through the portal of state services.

“Apparently, self-isolation in the best possible scenario can take three days,” RBC quotes Lomidze.

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Recall that since July 15, the need to comply with quarantine has been canceled for arriving in the territory of the Russian Federation.

They must have a COVID-19 negative test certificate with them.

In the absence of analyzes, it is necessary to undergo a PCR test within three days from the moment of arrival and upload the data to the public services portal.

The fine for non-compliance with the rule ranges from 15 to 40 thousand rubles, in case of harm to the health of another person, the amount of the sanction will increase - from 150 to 300 thousand rubles.

Starting from August 1, Russia began a gradual restoration of international air traffic. The first were resumed mutual flights with Turkey, Great Britain, Tanzania, from August 15 - with Switzerland, from September 3 - with Egypt, the UAE and the Maldives, and from September 21, flights with Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan were resumed. At the same time, a number of countries were allowed to enter the Russian Federation: Montenegro, Moldova, Poland, Greece and Abkhazia.