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Evening Coronavirus
How the developers of the Russian vaccine responded to criticism of their research. In St. Petersburg, the incidence rate is growing. More than 200 thousand people have died in the US
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Over the past 24 hours, 6,431 new cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Russia. In total, 1,122,241 people have fallen ill in the country since the beginning of the pandemic. During the day, 5,750 patients with Covid were discharged from hospitals. Over the entire period, 923,699 people have recovered. 150 people died in one day, for a total of 19,799 people.
Covid was detected in 13 State Duma deputies . Yesterday speaker Vyacheslav Volodin spoke about ten sick people. The artistic director of the Yaroslavl Drama Theater Sergei Puskepalis was hospitalized. Opera singer Anna Netrebko was discharged from the hospital . In St. Petersburg, the mask regime has been extended until October 11.
In the Novosibirsk region, it was allowed to fill stadiums not by 25%, but by half . Also in the region, tours, hotels and solariums were allowed to operate. Theaters opened in the Komi Republic. The self-isolation regime for people over 65 years of age was extended until September 30 . Cinemas opened in the Astrakhan region. Nine schools in the Altai Republic were placed under quarantine .
Data for Russia in the form ofmaps and tables . We update them every day.
More than 200 thousand people have died from coronavirus in the United States, more than in any other country in the world. In Belgium, restrictions are being eased : wearing masks is no longer mandatory, and quarantine after contact with a sick person has been reduced to one week. In the Netherlands, another record for infections per day: 2,357 people fell ill . A record 4,465 new cases of Covid have been identified in Indonesia.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas self-isolated : his security guard was diagnosed with Covid. The opera ball will not take place in Vienna - it was supposed to take place on February 11, 2021. Johnson & Johnson began phase three vaccine trials . It will involve 60 thousand volunteers in eight countries on three continents.
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The developers of the Russian vaccine responded to criticism from foreign colleagues . An article about the Sputnik V tests in the scientific journal The Lancet had statistical anomalies: many of the study participants had suspiciously similar results on important indicators. These overlaps arose due to the research methods chosen by the developers. And also because of the very small sample of volunteers. We compared the arguments of both sides .
In St. Petersburg, the incidence rate has begun to increase, but the authorities do not yet plan to return quarantine . Since September 19, more than six thousand cases have been identified every day. There haven't been so many since July. In addition, St. Petersburg leads in the number of deaths from covid per capita. Some hospitals are already full; by September 22 , about 6% of free beds remained in the city . According to doctors, there are no problems with protective equipment - but their allowances have begun to be reduced. The regional authorities simply do not have the money to resume a full quarantine.
The most dangerous diseases and conditions with Covid are arterial hypertension, diabetes and obesity . As the Ministry of Health stated, these three factors “worse the prognosis of patients with coronavirus infection.” But there is no reliable data on the benefits of zinc or ginger for the treatment and prevention of covid.
What else
At Helsinki Airport, passengers are tested for Covid using dogs. The procedure goes like this: a tissue is passed over the passenger's neck, after which the sample is sniffed by a dog. If she smells an infection, the person will be invited to take a laboratory test. Oddly enough, dogs can actually smell , which indicates inflammation and the body's immune response. The problem is that they cannot distinguish coronavirus infection from other respiratory diseases.
PS There is not much good news in this newsletter, so tell us what good things are happening to you while quarantine is around. And we will tell your stories to make us all feel better.
Here's what reader Nika wrote to us:
We live in South Africa. A strict quarantine was in place for a long time, but travel between provinces was recently allowed. And we are driving along the Indian Ocean coast by car from the Eastern Cape to the province of KwaZulu-Natal and then back. It's whale migration season - they're returning from north to south, mostly humpback whales and their babies. Everywhere you look into the ocean there are fountains, backs, tails, splashes. The babies are playful - they often jump out entirely, and their mothers hit the water with their fins or tails. Incredible spectacle 😍
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