In Russia, the maximum daily mortality rate from COVID-19 was recorded - 929 people.

The previous anti-record was 895 deaths.

Over the past day, 25,133 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in the country, 19,841 people have fully recovered.

The largest number of COVID-19 episodes in the Russian Federation was recorded in Moscow (3589), St. Petersburg (2187) and the Moscow region (1410), as well as in the Samara (638) and Nizhny Novgorod (611) regions.

During the entire observation period, the diagnosis of COVID-19 in Russia was confirmed in 7,662,560 people, of which 6,778,900 fully recovered. The number of deaths reached 212,625.

Rospotrebnadzor explained that no additional restrictions were imposed on the holding of mass events in Russia.

On October 4, the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Anna Popova noted that mass events were stopped due to COVID-19 throughout the country.

"Today, there is not a single constituent entity of the federation where events with more than three thousand participants can be held, and events up to 500 people are allowed in 48 constituent entities," the message says.

Also, according to the department, over 194.5 million tests for coronavirus have been performed in Russia for the entire time, including 443 thousand in the last day.

More than 1.3 million people remain under medical supervision.

Meanwhile, on the eve of Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted that Russia is approaching a negative milestone of 30 thousand cases per day, stating that with the beginning of the autumn-winter season, the epidemiological situation in the country has become more complicated.

She also said that 47.4 million people were vaccinated with the first component of the vaccines, 42.2 million were completely vaccinated, 1.9 million people were revaccinated or were vaccinated after illness.

“But in order to achieve the herd immunity index, which we have defined for ourselves, we still need to vaccinate 35.9 million people and re-vaccinate 7.6 million people who were ill more than six months ago or vaccinated more than 6 months ago,” she explained. during a meeting of Vladimir Putin with members of the government.

In turn, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that an experiment on express testing in the MFC and shopping centers had already started in the capital, and in the next two weeks this system for identifying patients would become large-scale.

“We started to implement them (express tests. -

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) in places of mass stay of people, in the MFC, in shopping centers.

In a week - in two we will develop this system to a large-scale one, ”said the mayor.

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Scientists from Spain and Canada have studied the role of factors affecting the survival of patients with severe coronavirus infection, RIA Novosti reports.

As follows from the study, the main indicator of a person's security from the threat of death due to COVID-19 is the level of specific antibodies against the COVID spike protein in the blood.

The specialists hope that their results will help determine the optimal antibody levels required for a particular critically ill patient to overcome the coronavirus disease.

"Sputnik V"

Problems with the recognition of Russian vaccines against coronavirus infection in the West are an element of competition.

This opinion was expressed by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.

“This is an element of competition.

I think so.

Until Pfizer closes a certain part of the market, this is a pure economy, ”said Manturov, commenting on the lack of agreements on mutual recognition of vaccines.

He also answered a question about the possibility of producing a vaccine in Russia for the American biopharmaceutical company Pfizer.

“How Sputnik will be produced in America, we will definitely start Pfizer right away,” the minister explained.

At the same time, the Russian Direct Investment Fund suggested that the European Union, against the background of the declining effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine, consider the possibility of using the Russian drug Sputnik Light as a third - booster - injection.

"As the EU begins to use boosters due to Pfizer's declining effectiveness, it should consider the Sputnik Light single-dose vaccine as a booster shot," Twitter said.

As a reminder, in August RDIF offered Pfizer to use Sputnik Light as a booster shot to enhance the effect of vaccinations.

This happened against the backdrop of research data indicating a decrease in the effectiveness of mRNA-based vaccines against some variants of SARS-CoV-2.

Later, the American company itself released data showing a significant drop in the effectiveness of its vaccine over time.

Thus, the effectiveness of the drug against the "delta" strain decreases from 93 to 53% after four or more months after the second vaccination.

For the rest of the SARS-CoV-2 mutations, these figures are 97 and 67%.