News archive on the topic "immunity"

The well-known presenter in his show “Evening Urgant” harshly ridiculed Smolny’s statement about one hundred percent collective immunity in St. Petersburg, which was announced by the city’s Health Committee. According to him, then the Northern capital became the first city in the world with such immunity. The epidemiological situation in St. Petersburg remains tense. The daily increase in cases has been at an extremely high level for several weeks now.…

The world has already passed the worst part of the pandemic, and it is gradually coming to an end. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Alexander Lukashev, a virologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and director of the Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases at Sechenov University, spoke about this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question of what stage of the pandemic we are in now. “I think in a downward stage, because in...

The Ukrainian authorities intend to use propaganda to speed up the vaccination of the population with the Indian anti-Covid vaccine. Kiev political scientist Andrei Zolotarev said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the Ukrainian authorities are unlikely to introduce a total quarantine again. “The new restrictions will further worsen the already difficult economic situation. I think the authorities will try to speed up mass vaccination. They will turn on propaganda. We have already seen...

In Russia, population immunity to coronavirus infection will be formed by mid-summer. The head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, said this, as a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, during a visit to the Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after Tsivyan. “According to supply plans and vaccination plans, we plan that the completion of the formation of population immunity will occur in the first half of the year with the capture of July,”...

The second wave of the coronavirus epidemic in Russia is clearly on the decline. A well-known virologist, director of the Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases named after. E.I. Martsinovsky Sechenov University, corresponding member of the RAS Alexander Lukashev. “We are no longer on a plateau - the second wave of the epidemic is quite obvious...

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...

In its oppositional fervor, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction put forward absurd arguments why it is not worth voting for giving the ex-president of Russia lifelong immunity and broad rights. Speaking from the rostrum of parliament, member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yuri Sinelshchikov emphasized that now the ex-president is granted “unprecedented immunity” - he will be able to “steal cognac, drive 200 kilometers per hour and engage in debauchery with impunity,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "He…

For now, Russian citizens should not rely on acquiring collective immunity from coronavirus infection. Nikolai Kryuchkov, immunologist, candidate of medical sciences, general director of the contract research company KEG, told Komsomolskaya Pravda about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In order for the epidemic to stop, 65-70 percent of the population needs to develop immunity. If, according to the census, about...

The immune system of the human body, which has not previously encountered a new type of coronavirus infection, in some cases reacts to this disease as if it were previously familiar. Izvestia writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing a study by scientists from the Federal State Budgetary Institution National Medical Research Center for Hematology of the Russian Ministry of Health. “Most people who have recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies to the virus. But in some patients this immune reaction is completely...

In Europe, the virus causing a new type of coronavirus infection will continue to circulate throughout the winter season. Giovanni Maga, director of the Italian Institute of Molecular Genetics and head of the department of virology, stated this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question of when, in the situation with the current epidemic, Europe will be able to reach a plateau. “It’s still too much to talk about moving to this stage with confidence...

For a number of people, the body is already ready to recognize and adequately meet the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Mikhail Kagan, Honored Doctor of Russia, leading scientific editor of the medical portal Vrachu.ru, stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, assessing the findings of scientists that many people are immune to the new type of coronavirus. According to him, one of the options...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, vacationing abroad as a private individual, can easily be arrested in third countries, since he is deprived of diplomatic immunity. Former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Vladimir Lanovoy stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The fact is that the president’s departure from the country abroad is a special regime. He can't go incognito...