For the first time, more than 100 thousand cases. Current about COVID on January 30

In Russia, for the first time, more than 100 thousand cases of COVID-19 were detected for the first time, of which more than 14.5 thousand people were hospitalized, in Britain a new subspecies of “omicron” was reported. Actual about the pandemic – in the review of RBC

For the first time in the country, more than 100,000 cases were detected for the first time – 113,122 people, 668 of the previously sick people died. The total number of infected exceeded 11.6 million, more than 10 million people recovered. Died, according to the operational headquarters, more than 329 thousand. During the day, 14,570 people were admitted to hospitals.

• According to Rosstat, the death rate from coronavirus in 2021 as the main or presumably main cause of death was 446.38 thousand Russians. Taking into account those for whom COVID-19 became a concomitant cause of death, the number of deaths reached 517.8 thousand people, which is 3.2 times higher than in the previous year.

• Over the week, the level of herd immunity in Russia has not changed and remained at the level of 64.4%. Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova clarified that the largest decline was recorded in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chechnya, Moscow, as well as in the Moscow, Ivanovo and Kostroma regions.

• Against the backdrop of the spread of “omicron”, the government allocated more than 7.3 billion rubles. to support polyclinics operating under the system of compulsory medical insurance.

• Significant damage to the lungs as a result of severe COVID-19 in some cases can lead to the appearance of malignant neoplasms, “but whether this is realized in the future in the development of lung cancer is not at all a fact,” said the deputy director of the Institute of Clinical Oncology of the Center. N.N. Blokhin Konstantin Laktionov. There is currently no evidence that COVID-19 patients are more likely to develop lung cancer.

By data WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world exceeded 364.1 million people, of which more than 5.6 million died.

• The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases, with more than 72 million infected. India is in second place (over 40 million), Brazil is in third (24 million), France is in fourth (over 17.6 million), and the United Kingdom is in fifth (over 16 million).
• British doctors have identified a subspecies of the Omicron BA.2 strain. Scientists examined the contacts of the British from December 27 to January 11 and found that people with this mutation infected family members in 13.4% of cases. This is 3.1% more than with the main omicron mutation.