Daily maximum update: 37 930 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Russia

In Russia, the maximum indicator for the number of new cases of COVID-19 has again been updated - 37 930. Over the past day, 35 660 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded.

The previous anti-record fell on October 23rd and was 37,678.

The largest number of new coronavirus episodes were recorded in Moscow (7778), the Moscow region (3127), St. Petersburg (3127) and the Samara region (1184).

The total number of COVID-19 cases has reached 8,279,573.

Also, over the past 24 hours, 20,690 people have fully recovered.

A total of 7,186,611 people have been discharged since the start of the pandemic.

To date, 231 669 patients have died from complications that developed against the background of COVID-19 and concomitant diseases in Russia, of which 1,069 people have died in the last 24 hours.

Rospotrebnadzor reported that more than 205.3 million laboratory tests were carried out in the country for the presence of the virus.

More than 1.86 million people remain under medical supervision.

Russia will reach peak rates for COVID-19 by early December.

This opinion was expressed in an interview with radio Sputnik by the head of the laboratory of especially dangerous infections of the Federal Research Center for Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Professor of Virology Alexander Chepurnov.

“I myself am guided by last year's wave, which was in autumn and winter.

Then it came in mid-September and reached its peak by the beginning of December.

My guess is that this year things will go roughly the same way.

If so, then we are going to see "hard" numbers (morbidity and mortality. -

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I dream of being wrong, ”he explained.

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Restrictions and QR codes

On Monday, October 25, new coronavirus restrictions came into force in Moscow.

They will affect residents of the capital over the age of 60 and citizens suffering from chronic diseases, who must comply with the home regime at their place of permanent residence until February 25, 2022.

At the same time, before the same period, employers in the capital must switch to remote mode of work at least 30% of the total number of employees, as well as all employees from the above categories of the risk group.

At the same time, a period of non-working days started in the Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk regions and the Perm Territory, which will last at least until November 7 inclusive.

Each of these constituent entities of the Russian Federation has its own peculiarities of local lockdown.

In Moscow, a similar regime will come into force on Thursday, October 28.

From this day in the capital, only pharmacies, grocery stores and remote services will work, and theaters and museums can work with the condition of using a QR code system, protective masks and a maximum of 70% occupancy of the premises.

In addition, it is prohibited to hold any mass events, and vacations are announced in schools and kindergartens.

According to the infectious disease doctor Andrei Pozdnyakov, the introduction of long-term lockdowns will not lead to a significant effect due to the high infectivity of the delta strain, which prevails in Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

“There is more and more evidence that COVID-19, especially with the delta strain, is a breakthrough infection, that is, it will“ break through any gap ”and sooner or later will cover everyone who has not come into contact with it, and those who come into contact with it will re-infect too ...

For this reason, any variants of lockdowns at the global level and long-term are meaningless, ”he said.

On October 25, RIA Novosti published the first pictures of the delta strain of coronavirus, which were taken at the State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology "Vector".

In turn, the director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F.

Gamalei Alexander Gunzburg pointed out that the QR-code system should be used until the level of herd immunity in the country reaches 80%.

At the moment it is 45.7%.

“Until at least 80% are vaccinated, it is necessary to keep this tight distance between vaccinated and unvaccinated by means of QR codes.

This approach has already shown its effectiveness in many countries of the world, where there have been and continue to be restrictions for the unvaccinated to visit certain places, use the infrastructure, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

He also said that six months is the optimal time for revaccination - a booster shot against COVID-19 can be done earlier - there will be no harm to the body, as well as additional benefits: “There will be the same high level of antibodies that he had before the revaccination if he was tall. "

In addition, Gunzburg said that about 80% of citizens who claim to have been vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine, but who had recovered from a severe coronavirus infection, bought a vaccination certificate.

According to him, this can be determined using a special analysis for the presence of drug markers: "We see that people lack these markers in 80% of cases."

“People spend money, and then they get sick and die for their own money.

They are deceiving themselves.

They seem to have a psychologically changing view.

They think that they are really vaccinated, relax any quarantine restrictions.

And their risk of illness increases dramatically as a result of their behavior changes.

In addition, they pose a mortal threat to others, ”said the director of the Gamalei Center.

He added that “there is no interest in praising the drug unnecessarily,” since its efficacy and safety has been confirmed by data from a dozen countries.

In Russia, 53,511,786 people have already been vaccinated with the first component, and 49,161,150 Russians have completed the full course of vaccination.

In addition to "Sputnik V", in the vaccination campaign are used: "Sputnik Light" Center.

Gamalei, "EpiVacCorona" and "EpiVacCorona-N" are developed by the Novosibirsk center "Vector" and "KoviVak" by the Chumakov Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.