In Russia contagions start to rise again: record since March. There remains the distrust of vaccines and the failure to respect the distancing

Few vaccinations, intolerance to basic rules of prevention (masks and spacing) as well as the natural trend of the epidemic, a few months later than all’Europa occidentale. The combination of these three factors has led to an increase in infections in Russia, which in the last 24 hours has registered over 11 thousand new cases, 11,699 to be precise, the highest number since March. Nearly half of the new infections – 5,245 – were reported to Moscow, where cases have skyrocketed in the past few days. THE dead there are 396, compared to 383 the previous day, for a total of victims, from the beginning of the counts, of 125,674. In total, over 5.1 million confirmed cases have been recorded in the country. But it is obviously about data officers, now undoubtedly lower than the real ones photographed by the statistics on excess mortality.

In Moscow, the mayor opens new Covid hospitals – Serghei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, epicenter of each wave and coordinator of the federal task force against the virus, has therefore immediately ordered the strengthening of inspections to verify compliance with the basic rules in places public (transport, bars, restaurants, night clubs and so on). The reality, however, is that, with over 4 thousand cases a day in the capital alone, the recommendations they are of little use. Sobyanin therefore announced the opening of new ones hospitals Covid to cope with the emergency (10 thousand beds are already occupied). “But no one thinks of a new one lockdown“, He assured. The fact remains that the first nation to announce the registration of a vaccine against the now famous virus Sputnik V already approved in 66 countries around the world, it fails to take off the countryside vaccine for substantial lack of interest of the population. The Russians still don’t want to know about it vaccines. And the authorities, beyond the appeals of Vladimir Putin (which also excludes any kind of mandatory), they don’t seem to be trying too hard.

The unknowns on the doses administered – The numbers themselves vaccinations are a mystery (the site dedicated to the emergency, very quick to indicate cases, deaths and tests, does not take into account the doses administered) and the statements are often contradictory: Putin spoke of 22 million vaccinated, but then it was discovered that it was about doses. In the best of cases in Russia, at the moment, an estimated 18 million vaccinated, between first and second injection (out of a population of 146 million people). Few.

“Immunity of the people who are healed froml Covid-19 yes you are running out and people who have not had the infection are slow to get vaccinated: all of this is delaying the achievement of herd immunity, ”he commented Natalia Pshenichnaya, scholar and deputy director of Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian Health Authority. “It would be wrong to conclude that we are onbrink of a new wave. However, many people continue to ignore the requirements safety and fail to understand the need for vaccination, which increases the circulation of the virus in the population, ”he said Pshenichnaya a Interfax. “Few people are meeting safety requirements in public transport, businesses and various public areas,” he said. “If these circumstances remain in place, sporadic spikes in levels of morbidity they will be enough understandable and they will be observed from time to time, ”he concluded Pshenichnaya.

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