Residents of Moscow over the age of 60 will be able to sign up for a coronavirus vaccination from Monday, December 28.

Mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin announced this in his blog.

“The Russian Ministry of Health has approved the possibility of being vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Sputnik V vaccine for citizens of the older generation.

It's great.

Because the elderly are the largest risk group who are most severely affected by the disease.

Starting Monday, we are opening an appointment for vaccinations for them, ”Sobyanin said.

On the eve of the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko said that for "Sputnik V" permission was issued by the department to vaccinate people over 60 years old.

The developer of the drug said the vaccine was 90% effective in trials in this age group.

As the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said, the head of state also intends to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, which Vladimir Putin will report "in the foreseeable future."

“In fact, he said that he would definitely do it himself.

He said that he would be vaccinated, that he had made such a decision and he was waiting for the completion of all formalities, "Peskov said on the air of the Moscow.

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New incidence data

Over the past day, 28,284 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Russia.

A day earlier, 29,258 cases were identified in the country, and a total of 3,050,248 people were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, 2,450,829 patients (80.35%) have recovered in Russia.

During the day, this figure increased by 24 390. At the same time, 54 778 people (1.80%) died from complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases.

Over the past day, 552 deaths were recorded.

In Moscow, 6620 new cases of COVID-19 were detected (the day before, 7480 new cases of the disease were recorded in the capital, and before that - 7315).

According to the capital's headquarters, over the past 24 hours, 1,798 patients with COVID-19 have been hospitalized.

There are 552 people on ventilators in Moscow hospitals.

Among the regions with the largest number of newly detected cases are St. Petersburg (3761), Moscow (1609), Nizhny Novgorod (499) and Sverdlovsk (409) regions.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, over the entire period, about 89.1 million laboratory tests were carried out for a new type of coronavirus infection, including 494 thousand in the last day.

656 thousand people remain under medical supervision.

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Amid the ongoing vaccination campaign in the country, the Gamaleya Center said that the organization received a grant to develop a drug for the treatment of COVID-19 based on monoclonal antibodies.

"These are actually the antibodies that protect (from the virus and are. -

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) in the plasma of those who have been ill, only which will be obtained by a genetically engineered method outside the human body and in a concentrated form," the head of the center, Alexander Gintsburg, quotes TASS.

According to him, the results of this work can be talked about at the end of 2021.

Gunzburg also spoke about the development of a vaccine that will simultaneously protect against the new coronavirus and influenza.

“This is a universal technology, which should, in principle, make it possible to create immediately vaccine preparations for various strains of the same pathogen,” he explained.

Along with this, according to the specialist, the center is working on drugs to protect against nosocomial infections, which are often the cause of death for patients in coronavirus hospitals.

“But this, of course, will not be in a month or two.

God forbid, in a year all this will appear, ”added Gunzburg.

In addition, the Gamaleya Center shared an assessment of the situation with a new strain of coronavirus found in the UK and characterized by increased infectivity.

Let us recall that this circumstance became the reason for the suspension of flights between a number of states and the United Kingdom.

Subsequently, the strain was found in more than ten other countries.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, virologist of the Gamaleya Research Center for Chemistry, Viktor Zuev, expressed the opinion that one should not be afraid of the new strain, it is necessary to observe preventive measures.

The scientist added that the disease-causing and antigenic properties of the virus have not changed.

“It has become more infectious - that's all, it is more widespread,” the Ren-TV channel quotes Zuev.

The Rospotrebnadzor reported that the coronavirus mutation identified in Britain is still absent in Russia.

Alexander Gorelov, Deputy Director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, spoke on this score.

“We can say with confidence that at the moment the English mutation is absent in our country, but if it appears, then it does not carry anything global and terrible,” Gorelov said on the air of the Russia 1 TV channel.

Support for Russian regions

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to allocate more than 2.5 billion rubles to maintain the stability of the budgetary systems of Buryatia, Ingushetia and Mordovia, affected by the epidemic.

“The regions will receive more than 2.5 billion rubles to maintain the stability of budgetary systems.

The money will arrive before the end of 2020.

The order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, ”the Cabinet of Ministers said in a statement.

Part of the tranche will go to the city of Baikonur.

As the Cabinet of Ministers explained, subsidies will help fulfill social obligations to citizens and focus additional resources to combat the spread of coronavirus.

In November, it was reported that the Russian government will send another 80 billion rubles to support the regions in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.