Russia caught in the same 2020 pandemic

• The Correspondent's Look Vaccines in the garbage and false certificates: record of deaths from Covid in Russia

Contagions on the rise, record deaths and the cessation of activity as the only shock measure.

While other countries focus on completing the vaccination, defining what safe conduct to give to the immunized and monitoring the variants,

is stranded in the framework of 2020 in its fight against the pandemic.

To add insult to injury, this morning it was announced that the AY.4.2 variant of the coronavirus - a version of the Delta variant - has been detected in Russia.

Infections exceed 30,000 a day

and active cases of coronavirus in the country could reach one

in the first week of November. Faced with this dark panorama and with vaccination stagnant at 31.7%, Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided - after thinking about it a lot - to take measures and send citizens home. Russians will have a week of paid vacation from October 30 to November 7.

Despite having several Russian vaccines available and the facilities that have been provided in the larger cities, Russians remain reluctant to get vaccinated. The president lamented yesterday before the cameras: "It is strange, I know people with good education, with university degrees.

." "We only have two ways to overcome this period: get sick or get vaccinated. It is better to get vaccinated. Why wait for the disease and its serious consequences?"

The situation is especially tense in the big cities.

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The graphs repeat the evolution of 2020: a rise in infections in September with a peak in December.

The slow vaccination, the lax mask regime and a year with almost no restrictions make the panorama of last year be repeated, when the administrations had little means or experience to face the spread of infections.

1,500 people are hospitalized every day and the number of seriously or very seriously ill patients has doubled.

That is why there will be extra restrictive measures in the Russian capital.

The elderly are concerned, because of the 3 million Muscovites over the age of 60, only one million were vaccinated.

The elderly and the chronically ill have been asked to stay home.

Companies will have to telecommute at least a third of their staff.

All of this does not apply to those who have recently been ill or are already vaccinated.

Closures in Moscow

So far the easiest of the measures, which discharge the responsibility on the companies.

But as

newspaper has found out

, the capital will enter a strict lockdown if coronavirus infections continue to increase.

This would imply the closure of all

Russia has been boasting throughout 2021 of having maintained activity and freedom of movement while helping the whole world to get vaccinated with Sputnik V. The alarms went off this month when the death toll from coronavirus in Russia surpassed a thousand people for the first time. up to date.

The natural population of Russia has experienced its largest decline in peacetime in recorded history in the last 12 months, as calculated from official data by demographer Alexei Raksha, recently fired from the Rosstat study center after denouncing the

by the authorities.

Russia has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, recording an excess of deaths of at least 575,000 since early 2020, according to Reuters.

The current demographic decline could be compared to the decline recorded between July 1999 and June 2000, when Russia's population fell by 983,000 - it was a decade of great economic instability.

The population decline was already a problem for the government before the pandemic happened.

The country now has 145 million inhabitants, less than when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. The Russian government has tried to increase the birth rate and life expectancy with consistent policies, but the pandemic is pushing it back beyond the starting box.

New variant in Russia

The AY.4.2 variant of the coronavirus, a version of the delta variant, has been detected among confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia, Ramil Jafizov, an epidemiologist with the national consumer protection office Rospotrebnadzor, told the Russian agency Sputnik.

The epidemiologist does not rule out the possibility of the wide spread of this variant in Russia and other countries.

Experts at the moment do not believe "that she is responsible for the continuous increase in daily cases of coronavirus in several countries," according to Jafizov.

The news comes after UK scientists announced the spread of a

According to the Sanger Institute in Cambridge and the Institute of Genetics at University College London, the new variant AY.4.2 may be 10% to 15% more infectious than the delta variant.

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