In Moscow, from Tuesday, January 19, an appointment for vaccination against coronavirus infection for new categories of citizens opens.

This was reported on the official website of the mayor of Moscow.

Now, individual entrepreneurs, their workers, as well as self-employed residents of the capital will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The mayor's office recalled that 100 vaccination points work daily on the basis of city polyclinics.

“About 140 thousand Muscovites have already been vaccinated.

About 40% of this number are older people, ”the mayor said.

On the eve of the Deputy Mayor for Social Development Anastasia Rakova said that six mobile vaccination points against coronavirus will also start operating in Moscow - in the My Documents office in the Afimall City shopping and entertainment center, as well as in GUM, Helikon-Opera, DEPO food mall ", In the shopping centers" Oceania "and" Gorod ".

To get vaccinated, you no longer need a certificate from the place of work, added Rakova.

“Suffice it to name the industry in which you work,” TASS quotes her as saying.

Recall, vaccination against COVID-19 with the drug "Sputnik V", developed by the Center.

Gamalei in the capital began in December.

In the first phase, the vaccine was made available to health and education workers and social workers.

Since then, the list of categories of citizens who have the opportunity to receive the vaccine has been regularly expanding.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have sent a request to the Brazilian National Sanitary Inspection Agency (Anvisa) for approval of the Sputnik V drug for emergency use.

The statement specifies that it is about the use of 10 million doses of the vaccine - this amount of the drug is planned to be delivered to Brazil in the first quarter of this year.

"Uniao Quimica believes that with the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and around the world, government and business should make every effort to combat it, including taking extraordinary and exceptional measures that are dictated by the urgent need and importance of the moment." , The company said in a statement.

The world's first coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, in addition to Russia, has already been registered in eight countries.

In December, Belarus, Argentina and Serbia approved the use of the drug, and in January - Bolivia, Algeria, Palestine, Venezuela and Paraguay.

The situation with COVID-19 in Russia

Over the past day, 24,092 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia, of which the largest number was registered in Moscow (4674), St. Petersburg (3253) and the Moscow region (1406).

During this time, 27 311 people were cured of the disease, 590 patients died.

Thus, the total number of cases of coronavirus recorded in the country reached 3,544,623. During the pandemic, 65,085 people died from complications that developed against the background of infection, and 2,936,991 recovered.

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According to the press service of Rospotrebnadzor, more than 96.2 million laboratory tests have already been carried out in Russia to detect COVID-19, about 613.6 thousand people are under medical supervision.

In addition, the Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor has developed a test that detects coronavirus in 60-90 minutes.

Director of the Institute Vasily Akimkin told about this at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.

"Our institute and specialists from other institutes have practically developed and tested a test based on loop isothermal amplification, which can reduce the study time by three to four times, in sensitivity and specificity it is not inferior to classical PCR, tested by our institutes with a positive assessment," RIA quotes him News.

The agency also intends to send for registration a test system to detect the British strain of SARS-CoV-2.

Tatyana Golikova noted that in total, Russia has created more than 200 test systems for the diagnosis of coronavirus infection and antibodies.

According to her, Russian developments are used in more than 50 countries around the world.

In turn, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova drew attention to the fact that in Russia the situation with the coronavirus remains calm compared to what is happening in other countries.

According to her, if we compare the incidence curves, then in Russia it is quite smooth and flat.

She clarified that with a relatively low incidence in the country, it was possible to develop population immunity to COVID-19.

“We have developed population immunity with a low incidence rate compared to other countries.

We are in 60th place in terms of the total incidence rate per year in the world per 100 thousand population, "TASS quotes her.