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The incidence of influenza and SARS in St. Petersburg "exceeded the established epidemic threshold." This was reported on Friday in the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor in the city on the Neva.
Epidemiologists have clarified, with a threshold value of 9 thousand by the influenza of Petersburgers, 12 thousand were registered for a day for medical assistance. "For example, the incidence exceeded threshold values by almost 180%," the ITAR -TASSI National Center for IITASA quotes.
“Spring holidays have been announced in educational institutions, the epidemiological system with the influenza for students is stabilizing during this time,” the epidemiologists assured.
According to them, "Epides on the flu are currently also exceeded in Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Magadan, Perm, Chelyabinsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk by an average of 35% throughout the population." “There are no deaths,” epidemiologists noted.
According to doctors, "the sluggish flu epidemic in Russia will last until the third decade of April."
The National Center for WHO influenza is carried out by year-round epidemonitoring in 46 largest cities in Russia and exchanges strains and results of screening research with headquarters of WHO in Geneva.