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How the pandemic affected the Russian economy and what will happen to it in 2021. The world record for infections in a week. Trials of the third Russian vaccine will begin soon

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In Russia, a maximum of new cases of COVID-19 has been detected per day since July 18. 6215 people fell ill. In total, 1,115,810 people have fallen ill since the beginning of the pandemic in the country. During the day, 160 people died (this is the maximum since July 31), in total - 19,649 people. During the day, 5976 patients with covid were discharged from hospitals. For all the time, 917,949 people have recovered.

fell ill The governor of the Altai Territory, Viktor Tomenko, and the head of Adygea, Murat Kumpilov, . State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that ten deputies are now in hospitals with the coronavirus . Mayor of Birobidzhan Alexander Golovaty was discharged from the hospital. According to him, he " "recovers at home . In the Sverdlovsk region, the incidence of pneumonia increased by 1.4 times compared to last year. ARVI cases have increased by 10%. in Mordovia Baths and saunas opened . has been extended until October 5 In the Saratov region , the ban on mass events .

Data on Russia in the form of a map and a table . We update them every day.

have been detected in the world, according to WHO Over the past week, two million cases of covid . This is a record. In total, 31,331,642 people have fallen ill since the beginning of the pandemic in the world. In the Netherlands - a record for infections in a week : 13,471 cases against 8,265 a week earlier. In Iran, the maximum number of cases per day since the beginning of the pandemic: 3712 people . per day In Argentina , 429 people died . This is also a record. The number of cases in Mexico has exceeded 700 thousand .

There will be no Nobel Prize ceremony this year . In the UK, additional restrictions were introduced : they doubled the fines for refusing to wear a mask in public places, reduced the opening hours of pubs and restaurants and banned serving customers at the bar. These restrictions are expected to remain in place for up to six months. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš admitted he made a mistake by lifting the restrictions too soon . The EU summit, which was supposed to take place on September 24-25, has been postponed . The bodyguard of EU President Charles Michel was diagnosed with covid.

World Data: Map and Table .

News that may affect you directly

The Ministry of Health has allowed trials of the third Russian vaccine . It was developed by the M.P. Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Preparations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Tests will begin in the near future and will be held in Kirov, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. More than three thousand volunteers will take part in them.

What will happen to the Russian economy in 2021 and how it coped with the pandemic . “Everything is bad, but not as apocalyptic as it seemed in the spring,” says Ruben Enikolopov, rector of the New Economic School, in an episode of the What Happened podcast . Vladislav Gorin discussed with Enikolopov the government’s actions to support the economy and the population (the simplest measures in the form of distributing money seem to have turned out to be the most effective) and the promised GDP growth in 2021. The forecast looks realistic, but, firstly, growth will be recovery after the fall in 2020, and secondly, it is planned to be provided by raising taxes.

There are still no outbreaks of covid in Russian schools, according to the Ministry of Education . The head of the department, Sergei Kravtsov, repeated what he said last week , despite the fact that in the regions, classes and entire schools continue to go into quarantine.

What else

People who have had a dengue infection may develop immunity to COVID-19 . This conclusion was made by Professor of Duke University (USA) Miguel Nicolelis in his study , which he conducted on the example of Brazil, the third country in the world in terms of the number of infections. Nicolelis found that in regions where there were intense outbreaks of this infection, and the population developed antibodies to dengue, the incidence of coronavirus grew worse.

New cases of covid have been identified in clubs in the Continental Hockey League . fell ill The head coach of Salavat Yulaev Ufa, Tommy Lyamsya, and team players Markus Granlund and Danil Bashkirov . In Dynamo Riga, five cases of coronavirus were detected - five more hockey players fell ill on September 19. The club has gone into quarantine . The game between Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and Kunlun Beijing was cancelled. Lokomotiv was credited with a technical defeat . There are at least 12 patients on the team.

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