Over the past day, 27,022 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in the country.

The largest number of cases was registered in Moscow (2630), St. Petersburg (1958) and the Moscow region (1935).

For the entire time since the beginning of the pandemic in Russia, COVID-19 was detected in 10,241,812 people.

The number of deaths over the past 24 hours was 1,019. In total, 298,222 patients with COVID-19 died in the Russian Federation. 

The situation with mortality rates from coronavirus most oppresses President Vladimir Putin and everyone who works in the government headquarters to combat the infection.

This was announced yesterday by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

“The mortality rate is really high, it is a tragedy, because, indeed, every day they die for a long time - every day we lose more than a thousand or a thousand two hundred of our fellow citizens.

This is awful, "Peskov said in an interview with Naila Asker-zade on the Russia 1 TV channel.

At the same time, the virologist, doctor of medical sciences, professor Anatoly Altstein, in a conversation with URA.RU, said that you can die from COVID-19 three to four weeks after infection.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted that Russia has the most reliable system for calculating mortality from coronavirus.

Vaccination

In addition, Dmitry Peskov called the opponents of vaccination against COVID-19 "dangerous fools": "These are two words - one cannot express it in one word."

At the same time, Sergei Tsarenko, deputy chief physician of the city clinical hospital No. 52 in Moscow, considers anti-Axis "idiots", while the chief physician of the Moscow hospital in Kommunarka, Denis Protsenko, urged opponents of vaccination to "trust trusted sources."

According to Anna Popova, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, people who refuse vaccinations themselves and agitate others are stricken with fear.

She also noted that Russia is studying the experience of other countries on the introduction of fines for refusing to participate in the vaccination campaign against coronavirus.

“Let's see how effective it is, how applicable,” she said.

At the same time, the director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg, emphasized that the COVID-19 pandemic will end when 70-75% of the population will have antibodies.

He added that this can be achieved within six months.

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According to the headquarters, in Russia more than 70.8 million people have undergone the full vaccination cycle, the herd immunity level is 58.2%.

The situation with COVID-19 in Moscow

From Monday, December 20, in Moscow, the validity period of QR codes is extended from six to 12 months, and new QR codes are issued immediately for a year.

At the same time, if the validity period of the six-month QR code has already expired, but less than one year has passed since the moment of recovery, then it will be automatically issued in a new way - with a validity period of 12 months from the date of recovery.

At the same time, the validity period of codes that are issued after negative PCR tests is reduced from three to two days.

This decision is associated with the spread of the omicron coronavirus strain.

At the same time, digital certificates issued after vaccination will continue to be valid for one year.

According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the city authorities make rather tough decisions on restrictions only when the incidence of COVID-19 increases, poorly controlled or uncontrolled.

He also stressed that if it is decided to introduce additional measures during the New Year holidays due to the spread of the omicron, they will be announced in advance.

"To live the way we live, in those restrictions that exist, and if necessary, we will, of course, announce in advance," he said in the film Naili Asker-zade on the Russia 1 TV channel.

Sobyanin also told how much treatment for coronavirus in a Moscow hospital costs.

“Patients who are in intensive care - they have more costs, mild patients - less costs, but if you count on average, then - somewhere around 240 thousand per person.

This means that a quarter of a million is one patient in a hospital, ”added the mayor.

In turn, the chief physician of the city clinical hospital No. 52 Maryana Lysenko indicated that the treatment of a patient with a severe form of COVID-19 can cost more than 5 million rubles.

At the same time, she added that the consequences of the postponed coronavirus may be different.

“And infertility is from covid, and hearing loss, and perversion of the quality of life.

We have had patients who have lost their hearing, who have lost their sight.

By the way, we have a lot of people who have undergone resuscitation, ”Lysenko explained.