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The world has a record for the number of people infected during the entire pandemic. The second wave has begun in Austria and the Czech Republic. Why is the incidence rate growing in Russia?

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In Russia, the maximum number of new COVID-19 cases since July 27 was detected per day: 5,509 people fell ill. In total, 1,068,320 people have been infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic. During the day, 2,475 patients with Covid were discharged from hospitals. Over the entire period, 878,700 people have recovered. 57 people died during the day, for a total of 18,635 people.

The incidence in Russia is growing due to people returning from vacation, says the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko. According to the minister, doctors have learned to “manage the infection” better than at the beginning of the pandemic, and the situation in most regions is “quite stable.”

In the Omsk region, the high alert regime was extended until September 30 . In the Vologda region - until October 5 . In the city of Chernyakhovsk in the Kaliningrad region, the school was completely transferred to remote learning . In Kaliningrad, two classes were transferred to distance learning. In the Novosibirsk region , nine classes and two schools were closed for quarantine. In Mordovia, library reading rooms opened their doors , and citizens were allowed to organize gatherings. Children's clubs and sections have opened in Buryatia. In Transbaikalia, public events will be limited.

Data for Russia in the form ofmaps and tables .

In the world, 307,930 people became infected per day. This is a record for the entire pandemic. Authorities in the Czech Republic and Austria said that a second wave has begun in the countries. WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge expects deaths to rise in Europe in October-November. On September 18 , a strict quarantine will be introduced in Israel again : schools and shopping centers will be closed, it will not be possible to move further than 500 meters from home, but travel to work will be allowed.

In the state of Victoria, the Australian epicenter of the pandemic, 35 new cases were detected per day - the least since the end of June. About four thousand health workers demonstrated in Brussels . They demanded higher health care costs. 14 people in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos were diagnosed with coronavirus . Restrictions were introduced in the Indonesian capital Jakarta : schools and parks are closed, restaurants serve food only for takeaway. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has recovered from Covid .

World Data: Map and Table .

News that may affect you directly

First-year foreign students will be able to enter Russia in September. But only from those countries with which the border is open . The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov emphasized that students “should not under any circumstances” buy masks with their own money. According to Falkov, there are no Covid outbreaks in Russian universities yet .

Sobyanin again said that restrictions would not be introduced in Moscow in the fall . “We are ready for any negative scenarios, but I hope that they will not happen. And we are currently not planning any additional restriction measures or additional sanitary protective measures; we consider them sufficient. But at the same time, they must be observed,” the Moscow mayor said at a meeting of the presidium of the coordinating council to combat the pandemic.

What else

More than a third of schoolchildren complained of depression due to self-isolation and distance learning . According to the National Medical Research Center for Children's Health of the Ministry of Health, depression is expected to occur in 42.2% of schoolchildren. In general, remote work somehow affected the mental state of 83.8% of respondents . Meduza published instructions on how to understand that a child has become depressed.

Reading news during a pandemic is associated with increased levels of anxiety . In April, an international group of specialists surveyed Russian residents (including Meduza readers) about their psychological state. The level of situational anxiety increased especially strongly in those with lower trait anxiety. Losing a job and reading the news increased this risk . But it is impossible to speak with certainty about any cause-and-effect relationship, the study authors say.

In the Russian Premier League, the match between Rotor and Krasnodar was cancelled . The game was supposed to take place on September 13, but at least seven Rotor players were diagnosed with coronavirus . Previously, Covid outbreaks occurred in Orenburg and Rostov

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