The daily increase in detected cases of COVID-19 in Russia amounted to 14 494 - for the first time since October 17, 2020, less than 15 thousand cases were registered.

During the day, 22,575 patients were discharged, 536 people died from complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases.

The total number of cases of coronavirus recorded in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 4 million - 4,012,710. 3,516,461 people recovered, 78,134 died.

The largest number of COVID-19 cases were registered in Moscow (1441), St. Petersburg (1169) and the Moscow region (650).

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov assessed the situation with excess mortality in Russia, recorded by Rosstat.

“Added mortality, unfortunately, in 2020 appeared in almost all countries of the world, and everywhere it, unfortunately, at the levels that we would not want to see, we would like to be less.

This is our harsh reality, in which all countries of the world live in the era of a pandemic, "Peskov said.

Dmitry Peskov also pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin highly appreciates the work of the federal operational headquarters to combat coronavirus infection: "Of course, I am satisfied, and he himself has repeatedly praised this work."

The press service of Rospotrebnadzor reported that more than 105.2 million laboratory tests were carried out in the Russian Federation for the presence of coronavirus.

Over 643 thousand people remain under medical supervision.

Also, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare announced the development of a new high-precision test for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acids, the causative agent of coronavirus infection.

The test system is based on isothermal loop amplification technology.

“A new set of reagents for rapid analysis for COVID-19 can reduce the amplification time by five or more times, and the total testing time by three to four times.

For clinical samples with high and medium viral loads, the sensitivity and specificity values ​​were 100%.

The total testing time will be 1-1.5 hours, depending on the sample, versus 4-5 hours for conventional PCR, ”the report says.

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In Russia, almost 7 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine have already been produced and introduced into civil circulation.

This was announced by the deputy director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.

Gamalei on scientific work Denis Logunov during the round table "Vaccination against COVID-19 - an effective barrier to the challenges of the pandemic."

According to him, next month the planned production capacity of the drug will reach 10 million doses.

“About 2.2 million people have received the vaccine ... this is the first component, and over 1.7 million people have received both components.

A good level of vaccine safety can be noted, "RIA Novosti quotes him.

Logunov also spoke about two options for the vaccination campaign against coronavirus infection in Russia.

“According to the optimistic scenario, the main part of the vaccination of the population can be carried out by mid-summer, thus, 70% of the immune layer will be reached - this is a condition that allows to stop the epidemiological process;

according to pessimistic scenarios, the vaccination process will be completed by the beginning of autumn, ”he added.

Center representative.

Gamalei also said that two protocols of clinical trials, including pediatric, will be sent for approval in the near future.

At the same time, the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector" sent the results of the first and second phases of clinical trials of the EpiVacCorona vaccine to foreign peer-reviewed scientific journals.

"Their publication is expected in the near future," the press service of Rospotrebnadzor said.

Recall, on August 11, 2020, Russia was the first in the world to register the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus infection, which was developed by the specialists of the Center.

Gamalei.

On October 14, the vaccine "EpiVacCorona" was registered, created by the State Research Center "Vector" in the Novosibirsk region.

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Meanwhile, the World Health Organization reported that the number of cases of COVID-19 is decreasing for the fourth consecutive week.

During the week from February 1 to February 7, 3,153,426 cases of coronavirus were registered in the world, which is 17% less than in the period from January 25 to 31.

In addition, the number of reported deaths from coronavirus infection is declining.

So, last week, 88 thousand deaths were recorded - 10% less compared to the last week of January.

At the same time, WHO notes the increasing spread of more infectious strains of COVID-19.

Thus, the "British" mutation was found in 86 countries, the "South African" - in 44, and the "Brazilian-Japanese" - in 15.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the total number of detected cases of coronavirus infection worldwide has reached 107 million.

The countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic are the United States, where 27 million cases of coronavirus and 468 thousand deaths were recorded, as well as India (10.9 million cases / 155 thousand deaths), Brazil (9.6 million / 234 thousand deaths). ) and Great Britain (4 million / 114 thousand).