The vaccine against coronavirus infection has been delivered to all regions of Russia.

The head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko told about it. 

“The instruction of the president has been fulfilled.

Batches for large-scale vaccination have been delivered today to all regions of Russia, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Meanwhile, Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, recalled that on Monday, an appointment for vaccination against COVID-19 for employees of public service centers, as well as citizens employed in the field of culture, trade and services, started in the capital. 

“Employees of city educational and medical organizations, regardless of their form of ownership, as well as employees of city social services can still sign up and get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Gradually, we will continue to expand the circle of persons eligible for vaccination against coronavirus until it becomes available to all residents of the capital, ”the capital's headquarters quoted the vice-mayor as saying.

Also, on Monday, an electronic registration for vaccination against coronavirus in the Moscow region was opened.

Minister of Health of the region Svetlana Strigunkova specified that 92 vaccination stations have been deployed in the region.

“Starting Monday, from today, an electronic timetable will be opened in vaccination rooms for residents who wish to come and be vaccinated against COVID-19.

We received 7,044 doses of the vaccine before last Saturday, all of them have been used at the moment, ”she added.

Social workers and teachers have also begun to be vaccinated in the Magadan Region.

200 doses of Sputnik V vaccine have been delivered to the region, and another batch will arrive shortly.

In turn, the head of the laboratory of the Gamaleya Center Elena Burtseva recalled that before being vaccinated against coronavirus, a person needs to pass not only a PCR test to determine COVID-19, but also blood for the presence of antibodies

“It is best to do this a day before the procedure,” explained the URA.RU specialist.

She also recommended not to contact patients with the infection for two weeks, specifying that those who want to be vaccinated must be healthy and not have symptoms of respiratory diseases.

In a conversation with RT Arabic, UAE social medicine specialist Saif Darwish spoke about the trials of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine in the country.

“The results of the first and second rounds of Russian vaccine trials have been very promising and have been published in many medical journals such as The Lancet.

The leadership of the UAE Ministry of Health followed these impressive results closely.

We hope that the third stage, in which more than 500 people over 18 years of age who have not previously had COVID-19 and who have not had any symptoms of respiratory diseases in the past 14 days, will participate in the tests for 180 days. and during this period their condition will be under constant control, ”the expert noted.

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In Russia, over the past day, 27,328 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected.

During this time, 18,562 people were cured of the disease, 450 patients died.

The largest number of new cases was registered in Moscow (5874), St. Petersburg (3771) and the Moscow region (1484).

The press service of Rospotrebnadzor clarified that Russian doctors conducted more than 83 million tests to detect COVID-19, including 463 thousand studies over the past day.

According to the ministry, more than 568 thousand people remain under medical supervision due to suspected coronavirus infection.

According to the Moscow operational headquarters for the control and monitoring of the situation with coronavirus, 1,370 patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Moscow per day.

There are 449 people on ventilators in the city's hospitals.

The total number of cases of coronavirus infection recorded in Russia has reached 2,681,256, 2,124,797 patients have recovered over the entire time, and 47,391 people have died.

Since the start of the pandemic, almost 355,000 CT examinations have been conducted in the city for patients with suspected COVID-19, the press service of the Moscow Social Development Complex reported.

“Back in the spring, outpatient CT centers were organized on the basis of city polyclinics.

This was done at the suggestion of the clinical committee and made it possible to speed up the diagnosis and reduce the workload on hospital departments, if, according to the results of the examination, the patient requires hospitalization, "RIA Novosti reports the press service.