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Evening Coronavirus
The first big interview with the creator of the Russian covid vaccine. In St. Petersburg, a tenfold increase in the number of community-acquired pneumonia. 15 million people worldwide are sick
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were detected per day In Russia , 5848 new cases of COVID-19 . The leaders are Moscow (608 cases), Sverdlovsk (249) and Nizhny Novgorod regions (202). Since the beginning of the pandemic, 795,038 people have fallen ill. During the day, another 147 patients with covid died, and a total of 12,892 people. During the day, 8,277 people were discharged from hospitals, for the entire time - 580,330 people.
Data on Russia in the form of a map and a table . We update them every day.
The number of people infected in the world has exceeded 15 million : 15,234,683 cases have now been recorded. 14 million was July 18th . California has overtaken New York in the number of cases. During the day, more than 12,100 new cases were detected there. In total there are more than 422 thousand of them - against 413 thousand in New York. Donald Trump said the Black Lives Matter protests may have led to a recent rise in infections in the US . Scholars do not agree with him.
In Hong Kong, a record 118 cases were detected per day . Authorities have urged non-essential workers to work from home until August 2. Sweden's unemployment rate has risen to almost 10% , the highest since 1998. The UK will provide £100m to boost production of a COVID-19 vaccine. France will distribute 40 million reusable masks to the poorest citizens. Previously, the French were required to wear masks in closed public spaces. Violators are fined 135 euros.
News that may affect you directly
We spoke with the developer of the Russian coronavirus vaccine . According to Denis Logunov from the Gamaleya Center, it is not worth waiting for the vaccine in September : then it can only receive temporary registration, and its mass production will not begin until the end of 2020. Also Logunov for the first time told in detail how the vaccine was developed.
“There is no reason to believe that the vaccine will not work. The only concern with this, if you ask my personal opinion, is the duration of the immunity. Whether it will last a year, two or three, we do not know.”
In May, there were 9.9 times more cases of community-acquired pneumonia in St. Petersburg than a year ago . In May , 9,560 cases were detected , and in the period from January to May - 20,537. This is 2.7 times higher than the figure for the same period in 2019. Community-acquired pneumonia is the main complication of the coronavirus. The St. Petersburg Health Committee confirmed that the increase in the number of pneumonias is associated with a pandemic - but noted that not all patients with pneumonia "were able to laboratory confirm COVID-19."
What else
The South Korean economy is in its worst recession since 1998 . The fall in GDP in the second quarter amounted to 2.9% . Exports, which make up 40% of the economy, have suffered the most. It fell by 16.6%, the biggest drop since 1963.
PS There is not a lot of good news in this newsletter, so tell us what good things are happening to you while the coronavirus is around. And we will tell your stories to make it easier for all of us.
Here is what a reader Julia wrote to us:
Hello Medusa!
Yesterday I had a birthday. I don’t really like this date, so I removed the mention of it in all social networks. Accordingly, there are usually not so many congratulations on this day. But not this year. People seemed to have become kinder, or the stars converged, but it seems that everyone congratulated me. Relatives, colleagues (who did not know until this year, although we have been working together for five years), friends wrote. They called from holidays, congratulated me on the way from Yekaterinburg to Chelyabinsk, from another region, even those whom I had not seen for a long time. And the words they all say are so warm that even such a true cracker as I shed a tear.
My wonderful 27 just has to be the best year of my life, because it started so beautifully!
Congratulations!
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