On Friday, December 4, an electronic registration for vaccination against COVID-19 was opened in Moscow.
Medical staff, teachers, and social workers can register for vaccinations.
“First of all, on behalf of the President of Russia and the Mayor of Moscow, we vaccinate the main risk groups.
These are those who have to communicate more often with a large number of people on duty.
These are employees of city, federal and private medical organizations, employees of educational institutions and employees of city social services.
Please note that not only doctors and teachers will be able to get vaccinated.
The orderly at the hospital, school staff, social workers work in teams where there are many contacts with residents.
And they have no less risk of getting infected, ”said Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development.
The mos.ru portal states that in order to sign up for a free vaccination, you need to go to the Appointment to a Doctor service in the service catalog, where in the list of specialties you need to select COVID-19 vaccination.
You can sign up for a coronavirus vaccine two weeks in advance.
At the same time, the work of 70 vaccination points will start on December 5, they are organized on the basis of city polyclinics and will work daily from 08:00 to 20:00.
You need a passport, compulsory medical insurance policy and a certificate from work.
“Vaccination takes at least an hour.
A doctor's examination before vaccination will take about 10 minutes, preparation of the drug will take about 15 minutes more - the vaccine is stored frozen (five doses in one ampoule) and thawed for five patients at once, when they have already been examined.
Post-vaccination observation and post-vaccination examination will last 30 minutes.
The patient will receive a certificate with marks of two vaccinations, confirming the fact of being vaccinated against coronavirus, ”the official website of the mayor of Moscow says.
As Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin noted, the process of vaccination against coronavirus infection has been launched.
“In the first five hours, 5,000 people signed up for the vaccination - teachers, doctors, social workers, those who risk their health and lives the most today,” the mayor of Moscow said in a statement posted on the website.
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However, across the country, mass vaccination against coronavirus infection should begin by the end of next week.
The corresponding instructions were given on December 2 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In turn, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed to develop and approve temporary rules for the delivery of the coronavirus vaccine to the regions of the country until December 8.
As a reminder, vaccination will be free of charge and on a voluntary basis.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, in the near future the total volume of the produced Sputnik V vaccine will reach 2 million doses, which will make it possible to start vaccination of Russians.
Over the past 24 hours, 27 403 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in 85 regions of Russia (28 145 and 25 345 cases were recorded in the two days preceding this).
The total number of registered cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in the Russian Federation has reached 2,402,949. At the same time, 1,888,752 patients have recovered, including 28,901 in the last day.
From complications that developed against the background of COVID-19 and concomitant diseases, 42,176 people died.
Over the past day, 569 deaths were recorded.
Most of all new cases of COVID-19 over the past day were detected in Moscow (6868), St. Petersburg (3694), Moscow (1223) and Nizhny Novgorod (496) regions.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, more than 78.2 million coronavirus tests have been carried out in the country, more than 524 thousand people remain under medical supervision.
We add that in the world, the number of detected cases of coronavirus has exceeded 65 million people.
This is evidenced by data from Johns Hopkins University.
In addition, the number of deaths exceeded 1.5 million.
The leaders in the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 are the United States of America - 14.1 million and 276 thousand.Also, some of the countries most affected by the coronavirus are India (9.5 million detected cases and 139 thousand deaths) and Brazil (6, 4 million and 175 thousand).
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In addition, the allergist-immunologist Vladimir Bolibok, on the air of the Sputnik radio, told what rules must be observed for a person who is sick with COVID-19 and those living next to him.
He stressed that being together in the limited space of an apartment does not mean that everyone will definitely get sick.
"He (a man with COVID-19. -
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) should sit in a separate room, go out to eat only when everyone else has fled to the corners, wash his hands, wear a mask and use separate dishes," the doctor said.
According to him, the patient should use "public places in the apartment" only after disinfection.
“Then everything will be fine.
We have plenty of cases when a sick family member is being looked after, but they are not infected, ”Bolibok added.