Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the stabilization of the situation with coronavirus in the capital.
He stated this during a visit to the coronavirus hospital of the City Clinical Hospital No. 15 named after O.M.
Filatov.
“Our situation with COVID-19 has stabilized, we diagnose 25-26 thousand a day, and there is no such increase as last week.
But 25-26 thousand are such exorbitant figures that we have not encountered, ”TASS quoted the mayor as saying.
He added that 15.8 thousand beds are currently deployed in Moscow in city, federal and private hospitals to treat patients with COVID-19.
The number of hospitalizations to date has reached 1.6 thousand people per day, the mayor noted, expressing the opinion that the load on hospitals is likely to continue to grow.
In Russia, 17,798 people with coronavirus infection were hospitalized over the past day, which is 0.03% higher than on February 3.
The daily increase in new cases of COVID-19 across the country amounted to 168,201. The largest number of new cases was detected in Moscow (25,019), St. Petersburg (21,832) and the Moscow Region (11,255).
During this time, 58,449 patients fully recovered, 682 people died.
The total number of coronavirus cases registered in Russia has reached 12,452,765.
According to the capital's operational headquarters for monitoring the situation with COVID-19, 1,646 patients were hospitalized in Moscow over the past day, which is 6.6% of the total number of cases during this time.
The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said that the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V had completely passed all stages of research and received permanent registration.
“The Sputnik V vaccine has already been registered not on preliminary conditions,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
The minister also added that the drug can also be used to vaccinate people with cancer and does not affect the course of the disease.
“In the recommendations, in the instructions for use, it is indicated that the vaccine can be used in patients with malignant neoplasms.
What is very important, there are no fears that the vaccine will somehow affect the course of the disease, they have completely passed all the volumes of research, and it can be recommended, ”Murashko explained.
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Recall that Sputnik V became the world's first registered coronavirus vaccine.
On the eve of the Ministry of Health registered the drug for the treatment of coronavirus infection "Esperavir" company "Promomed Rus".
“Date of state registration: 02/03/2022.
Trade name: Esperavir.
International non-proprietary name: molnupiravir, ”the register of medicines says.
Pyotr Bely, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promomed Group of Companies, said that the drug helps to reduce the risk of deterioration and hospitalization.
“Already on the fifth day of therapy, more than 80% of patients experienced complete elimination (death) of the virus, and more than 40% of patients, including those with risk factors for developing a complicated course of COVID-19, achieved complete recovery,” the company noted.
The headquarters also said that the Omicron strain of coronavirus has already been recorded in 83 regions of the country.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, in an interview with Naila Asker-zade on the Russia 1 channel, reported on the features of the distribution of "omicron".
“If we take the country as a whole, this is 17-20% - the proportion of carriers that we have identified.
If we talk about Moscow, then this is 40% of people without symptoms who are considered infected.
With such a wide distribution of the virus in the population, special actions to limit contacts become meaningless.
This is important for infections that cause a different epidemiological process, for measles and others, ”she explained.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor also noted that at the moment it is not known whether immunity after the transferred omicron strain will protect against infection with the delta strain.
“We really hope that yes, he will protect, but today scientists are studying this issue,” Popova added.
President Vladimir Putin spoke about the discussion of the possibility of lifting restrictions for those who communicated with those infected with the coronavirus.
The head of state noted that Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova discussed this issue with employers and trade unions.
He also said that the authorities do not plan to introduce a new lockdown due to the pandemic.
“Last night, only quite late, we discussed this topic with the Prime Minister, parted ways with him somewhere already, probably at two o'clock in the morning.
We had a long conversation, including on this issue.
The government has no such plans to introduce any additional restrictions,” Putin said at a meeting with members of the all-Russian public organization Delovaya Rossiya.