This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the commentary of the WHO European Bureau.
“The European Region (the Russian Federation is one of its 53 Member States) is beginning to see a decline in infections and deaths, but very high levels of transmission of COVID-19 due to omicron BA.5 sublineages remain, which is of general concern,” — says in the statement.
While a steady decline in transmission is reported in the western part of the European Region, the WHO stressed that “it is in the eastern part that the transmission of the virus is now accelerating: in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.” .
Earlier, the general practitioner, immunologist Irina Yartseva, in an interview with URA.RU, said that on the eve of autumn, one should be vaccinated against coronavirus, influenza, and some Russians should also be vaccinated against pneumococcus.