The Russian Foreign Ministry recommended that Russian schoolchildren be returned to their homeland in China

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Yakovenko said that the school students at the Russian embassy in China are recommended to pass exams ahead of schedule and spend the summer holidays in Russia.

"As we have already reported, cases of atypical pneumonia among Russian citizens in China are not registered. The Russian Embassy in Beijing is conducting a complex of preventive measures. At the same time, the school students at the embassy are recommended to pass exams ahead of schedule and hold the summer holidays in Russia along with parents who go on vacation," Yakovienko said on Thursday.

“These measures are advisory in nature, and each family independently decides on this,” the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry added.

Symptoms of atypical pneumonia and recommendations on prevention

Over the past day, 11 people died in China, another 187

In total, in the mainland of China, over the past day, another 187 cases of atypical pneumonia were noted, including 122 in the capital.

As a representative of the Ministry of Health of the PRC said on Thursday at a regular briefing, 11 people have died in the PRC over the past day, seven of them in the capital.

The total number of cases of infection in China is 3638, the disease claimed the lives of 170 people, ITAR -TASS reports.

5 people died in Hong Kong on Thursday

Five more residents of Hong Kong died on Thursday from atypical pneumonia. Thus, the total number of victims of this terrible infectious disease in the city reached 162 people.

According to the Department of Health, the alien new patients with a diagnosis of atypical pneumonia were accepted today in Hong Kong hospitals.

At the same time, on May 1, 43 people were discharged from the hospitals, which is almost four times the number of new patients. In total, 834 people have already cured from atypical pneumonia in Hong Kong.

In the information of the Department of Health, it is also noted that most patients "respond" to the drugs they take. Nevertheless, 88 people are located in hospital rooms.

As established, all those who died before the disease of atypical pneumonia suffered from other chronic ailments. The total number of atypical pneumonia in Hong Kong today has been 1,600 people.

372 people have already died from atypical pneumonia in the world, 5663 are infected

372 people died from atypical pneumonia in the world, but 5663 cases of a serious respiratory syndrome (SARS) were registered in the world. These data of the World Health Organization (WHO) was distributed on Thursday by the Department of State -Epidemiological Supervision of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

Cases of infection (according to WHO)
5128 cases of the disease were registered in China,
In the USA - 52,
In Singapore - 201,
In Canada - 148,
In Vietnam - 63,
in Italy - 9,
In Thailand - 7 cases,
Germany - 7,
In the UK - 6,
In Malaysia - 6 cases,
In Mongolia - 6,
in France - 5 cases,
in Australia - 4,
in the Philippines - 4 cases,
in Sweden - 3,
In Brazil - 2,
In Japan - 2,
In Indonesia - 2 cases,
In Romania - 1,
In Kuwait - 1,
In Ireland - 1,
in South Africa - 1,
in Spain - 1,
In Switzerland - 1,
In India - 1,
In Bulgaria - 1,
South Korea - 1 case of the disease.

Fatal outcomes (according to WHO):
In China - 317 cases,
In Canada - 20,
In Singapore - 24,
In Vietnam - 5,
In Thailand - 2,
In the Philippines - 2,
In Malaysia - 2.

"On the territory of the Russian Federation, cases of atypical pneumonia according to the data on April 29 were not registered," the state -owned service noted.

Russia can close the border with China because of SARS

In the event of a deterioration in the epidemiological situation, the sanitary services of Russia will apply to the Government of the Russian Federation with a proposal to close the Russian-Chinese border . This was stated by the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko.

"To close the Russian -Chinese border (in connection with the spread of atypical pneumonia ) there is no reason yet. But if the situation will deteriorate, the Russian sanitary services are ready to apply to the Government of the Russian Federation," he said.

The chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation noted that the efforts of the Department of the State-Epidemiological Supervision of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation have already managed to half reduce the flow of movements across the Russian-Chinese border, Interfax reports. “However, a certain part of the travel agency continues to send tourists to China,” he emphasized.

"The growing threat of the spread of this infection in China and in the adjacent territories makes serious adjustments to the work of the services of the state -owned supervision. We developed a set of measures aimed against the fees of this infection, their implementation was entrusted to the governors," Onishchenko said.

Including, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia recalled, orders were sent to the abolition of the planned Russian-Chinese events "not related to serious business issues" to the abolition services of the local services.

The population of Russia is not sufficiently aware of the threat of the spread of atypical pneumonia, says the Glavsanbravek of the Russian Federation

The chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko recommended organizing round -the -clock duty on the prevention of the spread of atypical pneumonia in the regional centers of the state -owned supervision.

Onishchenko sent a letter with this proposal to the heads of the centers of the state -owned -season and the heads of the healthcare authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation said on Thursday in the Department of GossanepidaDzor.

Gennady Onishchenko also recommended determining the procedure for the hospitalization of patients with respect to which there are suspicions of atypical pneumonia, and equip the ambulance machines with the necessary equipment and means of staff protection (protective masks, glasses, overalls).

In addition, in a letter to the heads of regional sanitary services, Onishchenko criticized information work carried out with the population in order to prevent the disease.

"Analysis of the reports of the centers of the state -owned supervision in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as publications of the press, television and radio programs indicates that the population is not familiar with the basic principles of prevention, is not notified of the list of countries that are not recommended to visit," the letter emphasizes.

In addition to the PRC, Singapore and Canada were also included in the list of countries that were not recommended by the state -owned demosor for visiting, Interfax reports.

The disadvantages in information work with the population Gennady Onishchenko called the absence of leaflets, posters and other means of visual information, including in medical and preventive and pharmacy institutions; Weak work of sanitary services with travel agencies on the issue of restricting trips; Recommendations on the part of a number of representatives of the sanitary services, which mention personal protective equipment and drugs inaccessible to the population.

In order to strengthen the work with Onishchenko, in particular, he recommended that the heads of sanitary services be placed in medical and health and pharmacy institutions, as well as in transport and in other places of mass accumulation of the population of visual agitation on the prevention of infection.

Gennady Onishchenko also suggested that the heads of sanitary services contact the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation with a request to allocate additional funds for this work and achieve the allocation of special time in the electronic media to conduct explanatory work on social advertising.

Gennady Onishchenko said on Monday evening on the air of Channel One that atypical pneumonia had not yet entered Russia. The chief state award admitted that the analysis for the presence of a virus causing atypical pneumonia costs a “fairly large amount”. "We have not yet calculated, since not a single test was completely carried out from beginning to end," he said, adding that "it will be thousands, tens of thousands of rubles."

Moscow is disinfected by public transport, including the metro, due to the threat of atypical pneumonia

In connection with the threat of atypical pneumonia in Moscow, the mayor of the city Yuri Luzhkov instructed to begin mass disinfectment processing of ground public transport, metro wagons and aircraft .

He stated this on Tuesday morning at a meeting, in which the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Vladimir Pronin took part, the first deputy mayor in the city of the city Lyudmila Shvetsova, who heads a special commission to prevent the appearance of atypical pneumonia in Moscow, and the chief state sanitary doctor of the city Nikolai Filatov.

At the direction of Luzhkov, at the first signals about the possible infection of atypical pneumonia , Vietnamese and Chinese markets will be closed , which are now in the city 13.

According to the mayor, "Muscovites themselves must limit stay in these markets ." Luzhkov also called on employees of travel agencies to completely stop the sale of Turputovka to the countries of Southeast Asia and Canada.

Currently, the city creates the necessary supply of interferon, gauze bandages and special sprays for disinfection of air conditioners, which can also cause the spread of this disease.

Luzhkov called on the pension of doctors to assist in mass inspections of markets and disinfection events in the capital.

In the near future , special brochures and leaflets with preventive recommendations will be distributed in the city.

In Moscow airports, sensors of determining the temperature of the passengers will be set

The chief sanitary doctor of Moscow Nikolai Filatov recommended to travel agencies to limit the sending of groups to the countries of Southeast Asia as much as possible, where atypical pneumonia was widespread.

Filatov said this after a meeting of the city headquarters to prevent this disease, which was conducted by the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov.

According to the chief Sanbrack, departments and organizations located in the city are also recommended to limit the reception of delegations from Southeast Asia.

He noted that in the near future, thermals will be developed and introduced to determine the temperature of the passengers arriving in the capital . This equipment will be installed at the airports of the Moscow region.

Inspections of the "Chinese" and "Vietnamese" markets are planned, whose merchants will be examined by representatives of the city sanitary services. The most stringent measures will be applied to violators of sanitary standards, up to expulsion from the country.

Overnight stays for the homeless, the place of homeless persons will also be checked .

Pensioners - former SES employees will be involved in the paid work to prevent the disease.

In the near future, the city authorities will prepare an order on additional measures to prevent atypical pneumonia in Moscow.

Gossanepidemnadzor began checking the clothing markets

Gossanepidadzor, along with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducts a medical examination of citizens of China and Vietnam in the food and clothing markets of the capital.

The purpose of the checks is to identify possible cases of atypical pneumonia. So far, such cases have not been found.

Scientists are trying to unravel the causes of the mysterious behavior of atypical pneumonia. The vaccine against SARS will be made in the coming months

The vaccine against atypical pneumonia will be ready in the coming months . This was stated by the Interfax correspondent, the director of the leading laboratory of the Ministry of Health of the PRC, Yuan Zhenhun, who is in Shanghai.

According to him, the laboratory collaborates in developing a vaccine against SARS with colleagues from Guangzhou and Syangan. According to Din Tyanya, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Medical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the PRC, the methodology for the use of medicines against atypical pneumonia will be ready in two to three months.

Yuan Zhenhun also stated that Shanghai doctors made a “one hundred percent effective reagent”, which allows to detect the atypical pneumonia virus in just two hours.

In parallel with the search for a vaccine against the virus, doctors work on unraveling the SARS distribution mechanism. On Monday, at a press conference in Beijing, the WHO experts called on to quit all their strength to the clue of this mechanism. “This is the most serious problem for today,” the representative of WHO Dr. Hank Bekedam admitted at a press conference in Beijing.

10% of infected atypical pneumonia will die

An analysis of the latest statistical data on the epidemic of atypical pneumonia (SARS) shows that at least 10% of people who have infected a new infection will die from this disease , reports New Scientist (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Messages of the World Health Organization about a low mortality rate that is about 4%appeared as a result of well -known epidemiologists of statistical errors, which complicate the analysis of data in the early stages of the outbreak of a new disease. It is these problems, and not changes in the SARS virus, are the result of increasing mortality recently.

Mortality exceeding 10%puts SARS on a par with other RNA viruses. Among them are viruses of yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, which carry tropical mosquitoes.

Symptoms of the disease are high temperature (more than 38 degrees Celsius), cough, headaches, a general sense of discomfort . Some patients experience breathing difficulties.

Presumably, pathogens of this disease are spreading by airborne droplets.

It is reliably known that you can get sick after personal close contact with a sick person .

Doctors also suggest that pathogens can remain on the objects to which the patient touched, and you can get infected after contact with them . It is not known how long after the infection the patient has symptoms of pneumonia.

The Center for Control and Prevention of Diseases in the United States has distributed a number of recommendations for patients and their loved ones . As emphasized, these recommendations are based on the US experience in combating this ailment.

- Patients should most avoid close contacts with medical personnel and relatives. They should not go to work and leave the house for ten days after the appearance of symptoms that can be symptoms of atypical pneumonia.

- All relatives and neighbors of patients should strictly observe the rules of personal hygiene. This implies, in particular, frequent wash of the hands with soap and regular wiping the hands with alcohol solution, especially after contacts with the patient or things that he touched.

- Persons in contact with the patient should wear rubber gloves. However, wearing gloves does not cancel personal hygiene rules. Immediately after contact with the patient, gloves must be removed and should not be dressed again until they are disinfected.

- Each patient must cover his face with a handkerchief during sneezing or coughing and, preferably, wear a surgical mask on his face, covering his nose and mouth. The same should be done by medical workers and relatives in contact with him.

- It is forbidden to use dishes, towels and bedding used by patients, and other people. These items should wash and wash separately from other things. Wash the dishes and wash in rubber gloves.

- garbage formed in a house or apartment where the patient with atypical pneumonia is located can be disposed of in the usual way.

- In the case of any health problems in people in contact with the patient, they must immediately consult a doctor.

- subject to these rules, people who are in close contact with the patient atypical pneumonia may not limit their movements outside the apartment or at home.