News archive on the topic "epidemic"

In the Lviv Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital, more patients with coronavirus infection are currently undergoing inpatient treatment than the availability of beds allows. Deputy Director of the Lviv Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital Igor Bernik announced this during a visit to the hospital by Verkhovna Rada deputy, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our hospital was designed for 200 patients, but in recent weeks we have 240-250...

The coronavirus epidemic sweeping the planet will end sooner or later, since this disease is cyclical. Colonel of the reserve medical service, author of studies on the development and use of chemical and biological weapons, deputy editor-in-chief of the journal “Bulletin of the Russian Chemical Defense Troops” of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Supotnitsky, stated this in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets. “Name the month and year when the epidemic will end...

In 2021, Russia will defeat the new coronavirus, Gennady Onishchenko, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, epidemiologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, said on the air of First Republican, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Next year, thanks to vaccination, will Russia finally defeat Covid? Will we develop herd immunity?” – they asked the studio guest. “Wherever we go, he will win,” Onishchenko answered. – Now there is population immunity...

Experts do not undertake to predict when the epidemiological situation associated with the spread of coronavirus infection will stabilize. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, immunologist, doctor of medical sciences Anna Toptygina said. According to her, COVID-19 has little in common with SARS (SARS) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), but these infections were contracted in one case by about...

The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic in Russia has not yet reached a plateau; a significant decrease in daily incidence is not expected in the foreseeable future. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, the head of the laboratory of biology and indication of arboviruses of the Federal State Institution Research Institute of Virology named after. DI. Ivanovsky" Alexander Butenko. “Europe is also in the midst of an epidemic right now. A difficult situation is developing in the USA, in Sweden...

The Ukrainian authorities are trying to fight the spread of coronavirus infection with the help of wild and unprofessional decisions. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication Apostrophe, said Doctor of Medical Sciences, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the first convocation Valery Ivasyuk, answering the question to what extent adaptive quarantine and repainting of quarantine zones are justified. “Every time I note that Ukraine received a red card...

The coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the world in recent months is unlikely to be the last global infectious outbreak, as evidenced by human history, during which mass diseases have claimed lives. Therefore, the 16 modern multifunctional medical complexes built by the Ministry of Defense in different regions of Russia will still be useful to the country. Moreover, they can be quickly repurposed for certain…

Russia has taken a full range of measures to contain the domestic epidemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The representative of the World Health Organization in Russia, Melita Vuinovich, stated this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, answering the question of how she assesses the actions of the Russian authorities to contain the epidemic within the country. “WHO does not evaluate anyone, this is not part of our functions. Just…

Ukraine faces very difficult months and years ahead, which will inevitably come due to the collapse of the economy after the coronavirus epidemic. The famous Ukrainian propagandist Dmitry Gordon spoke about this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Gordon, the near future will be a serious test for President Vladimir Zelensky. “He faced a very serious test, because the coronavirus epidemic and...

Vladimir Zelensky’s entourage faced a difficult choice: lift the quarantine regime, or face the risk of food riots among the population. The first president of the state, Leonid Kravchuk, stated this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Kravchuk, while the authorities are afraid to launch the economy, so as not to receive accusations of inaction to prevent the epidemic, but also...

The mortality rate from Ebola is much higher than from the current coronavirus infection. This was stated in an interview with Izvestia by Alexander Semenov, deputy director of the Pasteur Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of Rospotrebnadzor, who worked in Guinea when there was an Ebola epidemic there, and also visited Italy and China during the COVID-19 outbreak. According to him, “The COVID-19 epidemic is massive, but Ebola was...

The spread of the COVID-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, will begin to decline in the summer. This was stated in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta by the head of the laboratory of molecular virology of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Research Institute of Influenza named after. A.A. Smorodintsev of the Ministry of Health of Russia Andrei Komissarov, answering the question whether he can name the timing of the end of the epidemic in Russia. “Most likely, the incidence will begin to decline in the summer, but it is likely that the SARS-CoV-2 virus...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko bears personal responsibility for the record growth rate of coronavirus infections. The leader of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, stated this in an interview with the publication Podem, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now Belarus is among the world leaders in terms of growth rates. Lukashenko is personally to blame. Belarus needs a new president,” said the leader of the Liberal Democrats. He called the Belarusian strategy to combat coronavirus a “sham”...

There is no reason to believe that the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 will leave the human population. Vitaly Zverev, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the department of microbiology, virology, immunology at Sechenov University, stated this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, answering the question of when will humanity defeat the new virus. “It’s one thing to defeat the virus. Another thing is that the virus will remain in the human population...