In Russia, there is a difficult situation with the spread of coronavirus infection.

This was stated by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

“The trends are still rather bad than good,” said Peskov.

He also pointed out that Vladimir Putin receives reports on how the situation with COVID-19 is developing and data on the progress of vaccination on an ongoing basis.

At the same time, according to him, the position of the head of state regarding revaccination "is not important - it is important what manufacturers, inventors and doctors say."

“You know that personally each person has different dynamics with antibodies, but nevertheless revaccination is inevitable - not only vaccination, but also revaccination for those who want to protect themselves, relatives, loved ones, and for those who are obliged to protect all those who surrounds him, "- explained the official representative of the Kremlin.

Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin pointed to the "vital need" for re-vaccination against COVID-19.

COVID-19 statistics

Over the past day, 17,378 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia, 8,361 people recovered, 440 died from complications caused by COVID-19 and concomitant diseases.

Most of all new episodes of the disease were registered in Moscow (7584), Moscow region (1811) and St. Petersburg (1046).

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the diagnosis in the country has been confirmed in 5,334,204 people, of which almost 326,070 thousand are active cases.

4,878,333 (91.45%) people recovered, 129,801 (2.43%) died.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, more than 145.7 million tests for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been carried out in the Russian Federation, more than 617 thousand people remain under medical supervision.

Aghasi Tavadyan, an expert on statistics and modeling at the Center for Economic Research, said that the "most difficult" situation with the prevalence of coronavirus infection has developed in 13 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

We are talking about Moscow, Amur, Moscow, Kirov and Kostroma regions, Khabarovsk Territory, Tuva, Khakassia, Komi, Sevastopol, Buryatia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Chukotka.

“In Russia, there are only two regions with a“ green ”dynamics of the spread of COVID-19 - Ingushetia and Yakutia.

But even there, in the near future, most likely, the dynamics of the spread of the disease will accelerate.

The most difficult situation is in 13 regions of Russia, "RIA Novosti quotes him.

He also believes that the peak incidence of coronavirus with a plateau in the Russian Federation will be reached within one to three weeks.

“A decrease should be expected no earlier than in two months.

Unfortunately, it is clear that the virus spreads faster during this wave, ”Tavadyan explained.

The situation in the regions

On Monday, June 21, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin's decree on the extension of additional restrictive measures that were originally introduced on June 13 came into force in Moscow. So, in the city, the work of catering establishments in food courts, children's rooms, visits to zoos is prohibited, night work of cafes and restaurants has been stopped (from 23:00 to 06:00), with the exception of takeaway and delivery. Also, entertainment events with a population of more than 1,000 people were canceled, dance floors, fan zones for fans and other similar places were closed. In addition, children and sports grounds and other urban infrastructure facilities, with the exception of benches, are still inaccessible to Muscovites when visiting parks and natural areas.

In addition, Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, said that in early July, the city will begin a clinical trial of the Sputnik V vaccine for adolescents 12-17 years old.

According to a survey by the IFORS Research research company, 71% of CEOs and their deputies in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Moscow and the Moscow region are interested in the possibility of mobile medical teams leaving for free vaccination of employees in the workplace, TASS reports.

At the same time, 69% of respondents are ready to provide vaccinations for at least 60% of their employees.

At the same time, 75% of respondents believe that in the future compulsory vaccination will be extended to the entire business of the Moscow region.

The five most effective ways to motivate workers to participate in the vaccination campaign included: one-time financial reward (41%), paid holidays (34%), informing about the benefits of the vaccine (28%), vaccination at the workplace (27%) and an extra day of vacation (24%).

Meanwhile, in Buryatia, a restriction was introduced on the work of catering establishments: they will close at 21:00.

In the meantime, employers in the republic were required to transfer 30% of employees of enterprises to a remote mode, with the exception of vaccinated employees.

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In the Novosibirsk region, mass events were banned, as well as sports events with spectators.

Also, the region extended the high alert mode until the end of September.

“Moreover, taking into account that the most difficult period may be ahead - this is autumn, I propose to extend the high alert mode until September 30,” Governor Alexander Travnikov said during an operational meeting of the Novosibirsk Region government.

In addition, the authorities of the Magadan and Murmansk regions intend to introduce compulsory vaccination for certain categories.

In turn, the mayor of Krasnodar, Yevgeny Pervyshov, warned employees of the city administration and subordinate institutions that they would be deprived of bonuses and allowances if they get sick with coronavirus without being vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine.

“If the fact of a coronavirus infection is revealed among employees of the administration of the city of Krasnodar and subordinate institutions, if it is established that this employee has not been vaccinated against coronavirus infection with available vaccines, then this employee will be deprived of any bonuses, bonuses until the end of this year - to work for a bare salary, "RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

New strain SARS-CoV-2

In the state of Maharashtra, located in central India, at least 20 cases of a new variant of the Indian strain of coronavirus infection, dubbed Delta Plus, have been identified.

According to The Hindustan Times, the corresponding mutations have been found in four districts of the state.

At the same time, the Ministry of Health of India indicated that at the moment this version of SARS-CoV-2 does not qualify as "causing concern."

Meanwhile, the administration of US President Joe Biden has threatened China with isolation if the authorities of this country do not allow international experts to investigate the origin of the coronavirus on its territory.

This was stated by the assistant to the American leader for national security Jake Sullivan.

According to him, Joe Biden has already held a number of meetings with representatives of the US allies, during which he discussed the topic of increasing political and diplomatic pressure on the PRC.

“This is a key element in our efforts to present China with a tough choice: either they will approach it responsibly and let the investigators in so they can go about their work and find out where this all came from, or they will face isolation from the international community.” He told Fox News.

Recall that the United States is unhappy with the results of the investigation conducted by experts from the World Health Organization about the source of the coronavirus infection.

The WHO report indicated that the version of a virus leak from a laboratory in Wuhan was "extremely unlikely."

The United States of America, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, leads the world anti-ranking in terms of the number of detected cases of COVID-19 and the number of deaths from complications caused by coronavirus infection and other concomitant diseases - 33.5 million and 601 thousand, respectively.

In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 178 million cases of coronavirus and over 3.8 million deaths have been registered in the world.