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Excessive mortality in Russia four times higher than official data on Covid. What can not be done before the test. How much will the vaccines cost

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In Russia, a new maximum of daily infections. Over the past 24 hours , 25 173 people fell ill . In total, 2,114,502 people infected the country from the beginning of the pandemic in the country. Per day, 16 002 patients with a covid were discharged from hospitals. For all the time, 1,611,445 people recovered. 361 people died per day, in total - 36,540 people.

The former head of Khakassia, Viktor Zimin, died. He was treated in a military hospital in Moscow since August. The governor of Kamchatka Vladimir Solodov recovered. Remote training in the schools of Karelia was extended until the end of December . People over 65 were forbidden to ride in public transport. In the boarding house for children with disabilities in the Perm Territory , 22 children fell ill .

In St. Petersburg , new restrictions came into force : the work of restaurants and ice rinks located in shopping centers is prohibited. Sports events should take place without spectators. So it will be at least until January 15. In Yakutia, the sale of a methanol antiseptic was banned - after the seven people who drank it died .

Data on Russia in the form ofa card and tables . We update them every day.

More than six million people fell ill in Brazil. The country takes third place in the world in terms of the number of infected: Ahead of India (more than nine million) and the USA (12 million). The Czech Republic has become a mortality leader in the European Union over the past two weeks. We are talking about the number of deaths per 100 thousand people. This indicator in the Czech Republic is 23.4. Belgium, occupying the second place, has 22.1. Turkey allowed tourists not to observe the commandant’s hour that operates in the country on weekends. Vaccination in the USA, Great Britain and Germany can begin in December . In Spain - in January.

Kovid was identified by two movers at Shanghai Airport. After that, the authorities began to massively test passengers and staff, hundreds of flights were canceled . The Malaysian company Top Glove closed half of its surgical gloves-due to outbreaks among workers. The company produces more than 70 billion pairs of gloves per year. All residents of Saudi Arabia will receive a vaccine for free , the country's Ministry of Health said. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky recovered .

Data on the world: map and table .

News that can touch you directly

Excessive mortality in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic amounted to 120 thousand people. Officially, 28 thousand people died from Covid . Mediazona calculated excess mortality for the period from April to October based on Rosstat data, and in the case of October, she took the statistics of regional registry offices. It turned out four times more than that of the operational headquarters to combat coronavirus. As the demograph Alexei Raksha notes, not all excess deaths are directly caused by coronavirus - many are associated with the overload of the healthcare system.

The effectiveness of the vaccine from Astrazeneca was 70% . At the same time, the company noted that the vaccination scheme, in which the testers first received half the dose of the vaccine, and after a month - the full dose showed the efficiency of 90% . Another scheme, when volunteers received a full dose of a vaccine with a difference of at least a month, showed the efficiency of 62%. At the same time, according to the creators, the vaccine will be easier to store than the development of Pfizer and Moderna.

Moderna vaccine will cost from $ 25 to 37. The price of the Russian vaccine is “much lower” . How much will the “satellite V” will cost, is not specified, but the developers promise that it will be cheaper and Pfizer ($ 18). The dose of the vaccine from Astrazeneca is also not officially called. According to BBC, it will cost about four dollars.

Before passing the dough, you can not drink, smoke, brush your teeth and blow your nose . According to virologists, any of these actions can lead to a false negative result. When taking a smear from the pharynx, you should also not eat and rinse the mouth with an antiseptic .

What else

The Oxford Dictionary could not choose the word of the year - and chose 16 . Not all of them about pandemia . The dictionary chose one or a few words in each month, except November and December . This list included: Coronavirus (Coronavirus), Covid-19, Lockdown (Lockdown), Social Distancing (Social distance), Reopening (discovery). Moonshot can also include “pandemic” words - a word that indicates an ambitious and innovative project. So they called the British program of mass daily testing on the Covid-19.

We tell the history of the founders of the company BionTech - developers of the first vaccine, whose effectiveness is scientifically proven . Ugur Shakhin founded Biontech with his wife Ozle Tyurechi in 2008. Shakhin was born in Turkey in the family of a worker from the Cologne Ford plant, and his wife is the daughter of a Turkish doctor who moved to Germany. Both of them specialize in cancer. The couple founded its first startup in 2001, and sold in 2016 for 422 million euros. In this text - how Biontech has developed a vaccine and why companies prophes off the fate of the German Google.

Doctors in Belarus fight with the second wave - and are persecuted by the state . In the spring, the authorities simply denied the danger of the disease and did not introduce restrictions. In the fall, in many cities, a mask regime was introduced and additional beds were deployed - but the healthcare system still does not cope. People who are beaten by the police on protests are added to the patients with Covid. Major workers, who show solidarity with protesters, begin to pursue: delay, start things and dismiss from work .

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