“In St. Petersburg, there is a slowdown in the growth of the epidemic process indicators ... This allows us to count on the fact that the peak of the fifth wave of the pandemic has been overcome,” Lisovets wrote on Vkontakte.
According to him, at present the number of patients with coronavirus in the city is approximately 287 thousand, a few days earlier it was about 297 thousand.
Earlier, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, announced the passage of the peak of diseases with the Omicron strain in Moscow.
Infectious disease doctor, MD Nikolai Malyshev, in an interview with Nation News, recalled the importance of observing preventive measures against the background of the detection of the omicron coronavirus strain.