News archive on the topic "coronavirus"

The FSB uncovered a theft scheme in the Ministry of Defense - a high-ranking official, former head of the Ministry of Defense Special Projects Property Management (UISP) Andrei Tulupov, was sentenced to 8 years. He paid for fraud in the procurement of medical equipment for the military department to combat coronavirus. Tulupov admitted his guilt, but his lawyers are now trying to appeal the verdict, the Kommersant newspaper reports today. The FSB found out that officials...

The incidence of coronavirus infection in Crimea has returned to March levels and exceeded 500 cases per day. However, there will be no return of restrictions - the mortality rate from the new strain is much lower, and most infected people carry the virus as ARVI, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “The situation in the epidemic territory of the peninsula is unstable, but it is controllable,” said Natalya, head of the Rospotrebnadzor department for Crimea and Sevastopol...

In Crimea, hospitals are again being converted into infectious diseases hospitals to receive patients with coronavirus infection. The regional Ministry of Health has ordered the allocation of 50 beds of the Bakhchisarai district hospital to the Covid department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The number of detected infections per day has already approached two hundred cases. Over the past two weeks, the incidence has increased 4 times, and has reached the levels of early April, when...

In Sevastopol, following the Republic of Crimea, anti-Covid restrictions regarding wearing masks and social distancing have been lifted. The emergency preparedness regime remains in force, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, the governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev made changes to the decree of emergency preparedness due to covid. The mask regime is advisory in nature; self-isolation for pregnant women and chronically ill patients is not necessary, as...

In Crimea, anti-Covid measures introduced by decree of the head of the region in March 2020 have been relaxed. For the first time in two years, organized children's groups and groups are allowed to travel outside the republic, and dispensaries and boarding schools are returning to normal operation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Until recently, geriatric, psychoneurological and other boarding schools of the social protection system worked behind closed doors, and their staff...

Starting March 16, a number of anti-Covid restrictions have been lifted in Russian Crimea, in particular the mandatory wearing of masks. This was announced by the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The mask regime in Crimea will be lifted completely this week. This is due to the fact that the situation has already entered a stable direction, the number of cases is decreasing, and the omicron strain is more easily tolerated.…

The coronavirus pandemic is a biological war that originates in China. Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Alexey Danilov stated this on the BBC television channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Danilov, the coronavirus was created artificially and spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan. “Now there is a biological war, which everyone shyly calls a pandemic. It was quite clear that this thing...

It is still impossible to predict which strain of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic will be the last for humanity. One of the leading Russian virologists, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Lukashev, stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports, answering a corresponding question. “We cannot predict; we will only find out after the fact. I would say that there are practically no recent strains in nature...

Scientists cannot yet explain why at one point the coronavirus infection incidence curve sharply goes down even without achieving herd immunity. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, as stated by the chief researcher at the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after. N.F. Gamaleya Professor Anatoly Altstein, whether there are any mysteries left for him in the coronavirus, with which humanity has been living for the third year. “Yes, their...

It is too early to talk about the degree of danger of the new coronavirus strain Omicron, which is rapidly spreading across the European continent. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Izvestia was told about this by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). According to preliminary data, the disease when infected with this variant is less severe, but the danger is due to the fact that existing vaccines are less resistant to it.…

Unlike Russia, the countries of the European Union are experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people infected with the new coronavirus strain “Omicron”. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets. “Judging by news agency reports, something terrible is happening in Europe. Despite the high level of vaccination (around 80%), the incidence of coronavirus is breaking record after record. In France, the number of infections has reached 180 thousand...

The source of the spread of the new coronavirus strain in Russia was citizens returning from South Africa. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, stated this when answering a question about Russians who have been diagnosed with a new strain. “These are Russian citizens who, on their own initiative, went on vacation to South Africa, where they...

Studies have shown that antibodies after Western vaccines are 40 times weaker in neutralizing the new strain of coronavirus infection, which is now rapidly spreading across the planet. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, said leading researcher at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor-virologist Alexander Chepurnov. “In England, where it is now very...

It is possible that the Omicron coronavirus strain could have formed among millions of people infected with HIV. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that the head of the MIPT genome engineering laboratory, Pavel Volchkov, said this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question why everyone is so afraid of the new strain, about which nothing is really known. “Indeed, there are no scientific studies on this strain yet. But in countries...