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Evening Coronavirus
What drugs are used to treat covid in Russia. Why is the number of cases growing in Moscow. Israel returns to quarantine
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During the day, 5905 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia. In total, 1,091,186 people have fallen ill since the beginning of the pandemic in the country. Dmitry Makhonin, became infected The governor of the Perm Territory, . During the day, 5339 patients with covid were discharged from hospitals. For all the time, 901,207 people have recovered. During the day, 134 people died, a total of 19,195 people.
In the Perm Territory, the self-isolation regime for people over 65 years of age has been extended until October 4. The same was done in the Vladimir region and North Ossetia . until October 4 In the Chelyabinsk region, the high alert regime has been extended . Starting today, nursing homes for the elderly and disabled, neuropsychiatric boarding schools and other social institutions are returning to the isolation regime in the region .
In the Sverdlovsk region, professional examinations and medical examinations have been resumed . in the Omsk region Theaters have started operating . Schools in Buryatia, in which more than a thousand children study, are switching to remote work from Monday, September 21 . In Sevastopol, now everyone is required to wear masks - before it was just a recommendation. For the first time in 30 years, the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament will not take place .
Data on Russia in the form of a map and a table . We update them every day.
have already fallen ill in the world More than 30 million people . The top three are the same: the United States (more than 6.6 million cases of covid), India (5.1 million), Brazil (4.4 million). The Iranian authorities announced the beginning of the third wave of the pandemic in the country . Israel has resumed quarantine . Records for infections per day in the Czech Republic (3130 new cases) and in Myanmar (424). In Denmark, you can now gather in groups of no more than 50 people - and not 100, as it was before. In French Nice, it was forbidden to gather more than ten people .
In China, 32 people fell ill - this is the maximum since August 10. In Austria, from September 21, it will be necessary to wear masks not only indoors, but also on the streets. Bars, restaurants and nightclubs will have to close no later than one in the morning . From midnight on September 26, Estonia will ban the sale of alcohol at night . The European Union will buy 300 million doses of the vaccine , which is being jointly developed by Sanofi and GSK.
News that may affect you directly
We studied what drugs in Russia treated and treat covid. Our special correspondent Svetlana Reuter and scientific editor Alexander Ershov worked on this investigation for more than a month - they talked with doctors, scientists, pharmacists and analysts. The main conclusion: doctors and patients have to fight for drugs that do not help with the disease. Most likely, the situation will not fundamentally change until the beginning of 2021, when a vaccine appears.
The Ministry of Health allowed to treat covid outside of hospitals with two drugs . These are domestic medicines with the international non-proprietary name (INN) favipiravir - Areplivir and Coronavir from the manufacturer R-Pharm. From September 21, they should appear in pharmacies. There are two buts: firstly, doctors do not have a consensus on the effectiveness of favipiravir (more details can be found in the investigation ). Secondly, Areplivir will retail from 12,320 rubles for a package of 40 tablets.
There are more cases in Moscow because the number of tests has increased . This was stated by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin . The virus, according to Sobyanin, "became not so vicious, and the disease began to proceed not so hard." But at the same time, “you can’t relax in any case.” The mayor of Moscow also asked elderly Muscovites to minimize contacts, and recommended to company executives “if possible, extend the remote work regime.”
Covid can become a seasonal disease . As explained in Rospotrebnadzor, a decrease in the number of deaths and an increase in the potential for the spread of coronavirus infection may indicate that the virus has adapted to humans . If this continues, COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease.
What else
13 matches have already been postponed in the Continental Hockey League . Today, six games with the participation of Kazakhstan's Barys were postponed: 12 cases of covid were detected in the club. An outbreak of the disease occurred in Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. The Finnish Jokerit is also in quarantine. Transferring so many games is already a problem, and there are likely to be even more .
The leaders of nine countries (including Putin, Trump and Lukashenko) received the Ig Nobel Prize . The award was given in the Medical Education category for actions during the pandemic. It was also received by the leaders of Great Britain, Turkey, India, Turkmenistan, Mexico and Brazil. All of them "taught the world that politicians can influence life and death more than scientists and doctors." We asked the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov to comment on the awarding of Vladimir Putin. He said he didn't know about the Shnobel. here . You can read more about this year's other winners
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