In Russia, 38,058 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded per day.

The total number of detected cases of COVID-19 in Russia has reached 8 911 713.

Over the past 24 hours, 1,239 deaths were registered in the country, which became a new anti-record.

In total, 250,454 patients with COVID-19 have died in the Russian Federation.

7,654,161 people have recovered from the coronavirus (34,565 in the last 24 hours).

The largest number of new cases of coronavirus over the past day was registered in Moscow (3927), St. Petersburg (2942) and the Moscow region (2649).

As the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said, 258 thousand patients with coronavirus were hospitalized, 30 thousand people are in serious condition, seven thousand patients are on artificial lung ventilation.

“The latest wave is spreading significantly faster among the population.

The complication phase also develops much faster than with the spread of the Wuhan strain, so the system of medical care has undergone certain changes, ”Murashko said at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection.

On the eve of the chief freelance specialist in infectious diseases of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Professor Vladimir Chulanov, emphasized that the third wave of coronavirus infection in Russia smoothly turned into the fourth.

Within a week, the current peak in the incidence of COVID-19 in Russia will enter a plateau stage, said Vladislav Zhemchugov, a specialist in especially dangerous infections, an immunologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences.

“And in two or three weeks we will see the light at the end of the tunnel, and the incidence will begin to decline.

And further predictions can be made only on the basis of an understanding of what percentage of the population in our country already has immunity to the "delta" strain, - TASS quotes him.

At the same time, the therapist, pulmonologist working in the red zone, Alexei Nikishenkov, on the contrary, believes that in the near future, the incidence of coronavirus will increase.

“If you look at the previous year, just in the winter period there was also a rise in the incidence.

Somewhere from November to January.

Based on this, there is a chance that this time we will see the same thing.

Until the end of winter, there is no need to wait for a decline in the incidence.

Of course, it is impossible to predict exactly, but the trend that we see now speaks about this, ”he explained.

Mandatory vaccination issue

Vaccination against coronavirus infection should become mandatory.

This opinion was expressed by the director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg.

According to him, in order to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary that 70-75% of the population of the Russian Federation get vaccinated.

“For this, of course, this drug must be included in the National Vaccination Schedule.

And vaccination should be compulsory, "- quoted by the" Rossiyskaya Gazeta ".

He also pointed out the importance of conducting information work with the population.

“To prevent this from happening again, children should be taught to be vaccinated, just like their parents.

And, accordingly, the posters should teach this, as well as the fact that you have to wash your hands, brush your teeth and say "hello" and "goodbye", - said the director of the Gamaleya Center.

In an interview with TASS, Gunzburg also indicated that new waves of the COVID-19 pandemic will be recorded in Russia every three months, if as many citizens as possible are not vaccinated in a short time.

“Open the textbook on epidemiology, it clearly says: 70% of the population will be vaccinated, so there will be a light for you.

Epidemiology is a science.

She has her own laws.

If the pathogen is transmitted by airborne droplets, it is necessary to vaccinate 70%, or better 80% of the population, then the epidemic will not be self-sustaining, it will turn into self-extinguishing.

Then maintain the population level and that's it, you have won, ”said Gunzburg.

At the same time, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that no decisions on compulsory vaccination were made at the federal level.

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On October 28, a Kremlin spokesman also reported that the authorities had not made any decisions to move the vaccination campaign from voluntary to mandatory.

At the same time, the Association of Retail Companies and the Association of Internet Trading Companies, which unite the largest retail chains in the country, as well as the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, advocated that the vaccination campaign against coronavirus infection in the country should become mandatory.

As the chairman of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation, Andrei Klishas, ​​said in a conversation with RIA Novosti, the introduction of compulsory vaccination does not contradict the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but the implementation of the initiative requires the adoption of an appropriate federal law.

At this point in Russia, herd immunity is 48%, according to the site "stopkoronavirus.rf".

The Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko said that more than 62 million Russians have already been vaccinated with the first component of the vaccines, this is 53% of the adult population of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, about 4.5 million citizens of the Russian Federation were revaccinated.

“We must take a tough position today in the fight against infection.

This tough position should be in the vaccination of the population, ”he said.