The daily increase in cases of coronavirus infection in Russia amounted to 23 508. Moscow (3330), St. Petersburg (1914) and the Moscow region (1596) are still leading in terms of the number of detected cases.
In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, 6,312,185 cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the Russian Federation, of which more than 511,000 are active.According to Johns Hopkins University, Russia ranks fifth after the United States (35 million), India (31.6 million) , Brazil (19.9 million) and France (6.2 million).
Over the past 24 hours, 14,893 people were discharged from hospitals in Russia, and over the entire period the number of recovered people reached 5,640,783. 160 137.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, over 166.2 million laboratory tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been performed in the country, more than 1.239 million people remain under medical supervision.
The Moscow authorities are not yet considering the issue of transferring schoolchildren to a distance learning format in the coming academic year.
Mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin said this in an interview with RBC.
“We are not planning any retirement,” he said.
Recall that in the past academic year, Moscow schoolchildren from grades 6-11 were transferred to distance learning from October 19, 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19.
They returned to full-time format only on January 18, 2021.
In addition, the mayor spoke about the amount of damage that the Moscow budget suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We did not receive 200-250 billion rubles of income for the last year.
And in a year and a half, they spent about 350 billion more on the fight against covid: treatment, social support and assistance to business, ”he stressed.
In turn, the governor of the Kamchatka Territory, Alexander Kuznetsov, said that the region has reached a "certain plateau" in terms of the situation with COVID-19.
“Now the hospitalization rate and the discharge rate are equal.
The bed fund is gradually released.
We plan to monitor the dynamics for another week and switch to planned medicine if the dynamics do not change, ”TASS quotes him.
Meanwhile, the improvement in the epidemiological situation in the region did not affect the decision of the Kamchatka authorities to extend the mask regime until August 31.
In the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, mandatory PCR testing was introduced before going to work for all residents who returned from trips to other regions of Russia.
An exception will be made by citizens who begin to perform their work duties no earlier than 14 days after returning to Chukotka.
More than 1 million residents of St. Petersburg were vaccinated against coronavirus with two components of the drug, the press service of the city administration said.
“As of July 31, a total of 1,328,491 people were vaccinated with various vaccines in St. Petersburg.
Of these, 1,000,237 people have completed the vaccination cycle, ”the report says.
In addition, the city pharmaceutical plant received a batch of Sputnik Light vaccine in the amount of 91.8 thousand doses.
“Many Petersburgers were waiting for Sputnik Light.
This vaccine will help strengthen the immunity of those who have been ill.
It is in demand among those who, for various reasons, cannot count on long periods between vaccinations of the two components, ”said Governor Alexander Beglov.
In addition, the director of the St.
Pasteur Areg Totolyan spoke about the factors of protection against coronavirus disease.
“An intense scientific search led us to quite interesting findings: people with a high level of interferon alpha, with a high content of lymphocytes in the blood and a carrier of some genetic markers have increased protection,” Izvestia quoted him as saying.
There are other factors, he said, but research on them is just beginning.
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It also became known that clinical trials of a new vaccine against COVID-19 are expected to begin in Russia in September.
We are talking about the drug "Betuvax-Kov-2" - a subunit recombinant vaccine based on spherical particles with the surface antigen SARS-CoV-2, the press service of the National Technology Initiative Platform said.
It is noted that the Ministry of Health is currently considering the application and, according to the standard procedure, "asks the developers additional questions."
We will remind, at the moment, four vaccines against COVID-19 are registered in Russia: Sputnik V and Sputnik Light, as well as EpiVacCorona and KoviVak.
Republican report
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives Republican Michael McCall presented a report with arguments in favor of the theory of the laboratory origin of coronavirus infection and the actions of the PRC authorities, which, in his opinion, impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, reports The Hill.
According to McCall, the overwhelming majority of the evidence confirms that "all roads lead to the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Meanwhile, it is noted that the authors of the report do not claim to have convincing evidence for their theory, but consider it important to prepare a legislative response, making China responsible for the costs incurred due to the pandemic.
The report itself was prepared using open data and indirect messages.
Note that the Chinese authorities and medical specialists have repeatedly denied the fact of the possible occurrence of COVID-19 in the laboratory.
So, in a July article in the journal Science China Life Sciences, scientists from the PRC emphasized that SARS-CoV-2 is of natural origin.
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At the end of March, the World Health Organization released a report following an expert group trip to China.
The purpose of their visit was to establish the source of the origin of the coronavirus infection.
The document said that the laboratory origin of the coronavirus was "extremely unlikely", but it did not rule out any of the theories.