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In 2 months in Moscow, where the highest rate of spread of COVID-19 in the country has been reported, mass vaccination against the disease will begin, announced today the mayor of the city Sergey Sobyanin, cited by DPA.
“We will begin mass vaccination of the population in December-January,” the mayor said on his website.
He noted that about 10,000 people are currently hospitalized in Moscow with COVID-19, 1,000 of them on ventilators. “This is a very large number,” Sobyanin said.
However, the mayor said it would be “unacceptable and impossible” for the city to return to the spring quarantine measures that ruined its economy. The optimal strategy is to find a middle ground between closure and total abandonment of restrictive measures, “Sobyanin added.
There have been “signs that the spread of the infection is under control” in the past week, the mayor said, adding that 40 percent fewer people use public transportation.
Russia ranks fourth in the world in the number of people infected with the coronavirus, a total of 1.4 million infected. It is the first country to develop and approve a vaccine against the infection. The Sputnik V vaccine has caused controversy in scientific circles around the world over claims that it has not been tested well enough. However, the Russian health authorities do not agree with this opinion.
Russia has registered 15,982 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a new record since the start of the pandemic, said the national operational headquarters to combat the infection, cited by TASS. The previous record was set on October 16: 15,150 people.
The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in the country increased by 179. The previous day they were 185. The total number of deaths reached 24,366. The number of people cured of COVID-19 in the country in the last 24 hours is 5,328, making the total the number of people cured of the disease reached 1,075,904, or 76 percent of those infected.
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