More than 97 thousand patients recovered per day: 20,178 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Russia

In Russia, over the past day, 20,178 people were hospitalized with a diagnosis of coronavirus infection - 0.03% less than the day before (20,185).

The daily increase in the number of patients with COVID-19 across the country amounted to 183,103 (on February 8, an indicator of 165,643 was recorded).

Most new cases were detected in St. Petersburg (19,644), the Moscow region (11,956) and Moscow (11,521).

Over the past day, 97,163 patients have fully recovered, 669 people have died.

The total number of coronavirus cases registered in Russia has reached 13,330,769.

The Omicron strain dominates in the country, but the situation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is different, said Alexander Gorelov, Deputy Director for Research at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Chairman of the National Scientific Society of Infectious Diseases, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“At the moment, Omicron dominates somewhere in the proportion of 70 to 30, all other strains and, above all, the most serious strain, of the latter it is Delta, accounts for somewhere around 30%,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation also indicated that the provision of planned medical care to children, patients with oncology, and those in need of hemodialysis will not be suspended, despite the situation with COVID-19.

“Children, as well as patients with oncological, oncohematological diseases, patients in need of renal replacement therapy during the specified period, planned medical care should be provided in full - this issue is under special control of the Russian Ministry of Health.

Also, referrals for high-tech medical care and sanatorium treatment will be issued without restrictions.

It is noted that as soon as the epidemiological situation stabilizes, planned assistance will be resumed in full.

The day before, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko, during a meeting of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council for Combating Coronavirus, announced an increase in the number of hospitalizations of children with COVID-19.

According to the statistics he cited, almost 12,000 children diagnosed with coronavirus infection are currently being treated in hospitals. 

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Meanwhile, Konstantin Chernov, development director of the Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Preparations named after Chumakov, noted that the CoviVac vaccine in clinical trials involving children will first be tested on volunteers of the older age group (from 12 to 17 years old). 

“The guys will be divided into three age groups, and the research will be carried out gradually with a decrease in the age threshold.

We will not immediately address the youngest.

Initially, it will be a group of teenagers aged 17-12, the second category - from 12 to six, and only then from six to three years old, ”the Izvestia newspaper quotes him.

He noted that the composition of the drug for children will not differ from that used in the vaccination of adults: “We will use the same vaccine for both adults and children precisely because it has a very high safety profile. ".

Earlier, the Ministry of Health allowed the third phase of clinical trials of the CoviVac vaccine against COVID-19 with the participation of children.

1050 volunteers will take part in the tests.

We add that on January 31, free voluntary vaccination of adolescents, children and adolescents aged 12 to 17 years with the Sputnik M vaccine started in Moscow. 

On February 2, vaccination of this age group began in all regions of the Russian Federation, which is carried out on a voluntary basis.

About 41,000 minors were vaccinated, according to February 8 data.

On February 4, mass vaccination against coronavirus began in the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools, as well as in the presidential cadet corps and boarding schools, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported.

It was clarified that vaccinations with Sputnik M are done exclusively with the consent of the parents, and from the age of 15 - with the voluntary written consent of the teenager and the absence of medical contraindications.