The virus has forgotten how to penetrate the lungs. Current about COVID on February 2

The Ministry of Labor recommended maximum remoteness, COVID-passports were canceled in Georgia, the coronavirus lost its ability to penetrate the lungs, fines were introduced in Italy for the unvaccinated. Actual about the pandemic – in the review of RBC

More than 120,000 infected people were detected in the country per day – 125,836 people, 663 patients died of previously sick people. The total number of infected exceeded 11.9 million, more than 10.2 million people recovered. Died, according to the operational headquarters, more than 332 thousand. During the day, 17.4 thousand people were admitted to hospitals – 92.4% more than the day before.

• The Ministry of Labor recommended that employers transfer as many employees as possible to remote work due to the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in Russia. “In connection with the multiple increase in the incidence of COVID-19, the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations recommends transferring the maximum possible number of employees to remote work. The relevant document was approved at a meeting of the RTC on January 28, 2022,” the statement said.

• The wave of the omicron strain in Russia, judging by the experience of other countries, will be powerful, but will pass quickly, said Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. According to him, on average, from the beginning of a wave to its peak in other countries, it took from 20 to 25 days.

• Coronavirus infection due to mutations has lost the ability to penetrate into the lung tissue, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova. “In search of the most correct form, the most correct amino acid composition, the virus lost one of the receptors that provided its tropism or the ability to penetrate into the lung tissue,” said Popova.

• The coronavirus is less and less likely to manifest itself with “classic” symptoms of the disease, it has become more like a common acute respiratory viral disease, Zaur Shugushev said. “Now, loss of smell and loss of taste are less common. Now there are more symptoms, like ordinary SARS, that is, more cases of sore throat, body aches, and so on, ”said the scientist.

• The Russian authorities are not discussing the introduction of lockdowns or other emergency measures in connection with the spread of the coronavirus, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova. She warned that the number of new patients will grow, but the country has already developed “understandable, proven” anti-epidemic measures and means of diagnosing the disease.

By data WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world exceeded 376.4 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 73 million infected. India is in second place (over 41 million), Brazil is in third (25 million), France is in fourth (over 18 million), and the United Kingdom is in fifth (over 17 million). Russia is on the sixth place in this list.
• Symptoms of the omicron strain of coronavirus can be skin symptoms, including a rash, dryness and discoloration of the skin, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
• Hungary plans to purchase the Russian one-component Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. He also recalled the construction of a plant for the production of the Sputnik V vaccine in Hungary.
• WHO is concerned about the rise in deaths amid an increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 infection, said Tedros Ghebreyesus. “Since Omicron was first identified ten weeks ago, nearly 90 million infections have been reported to the WHO. This is more than in all of 2020. Now we are seeing an extremely alarming increase in mortality in most regions of the planet, ”he said.
• Italy introduced fines for unvaccinated residents over 50 years old.
• Georgia canceled COVID-passports.