We have registered a drug for COVID. Topical about the pandemic on December 23 – RBC

In Russia, a drug for coronavirus “MIR 19” was registered, how quickly “omicron” can appear, why WHO does not recommend vaccinating all adolescents. The most relevant about the COVID pandemic – in the RBC review

In the country, 25,667 new cases of COVID-19 were detected per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of infected is 10.3 million, 9.1 million people have recovered. Over 301 thousand have died.Over the past day, 1002 people have died from the coronavirus.

• The incidence of COVID-19 in Russia has dropped to a minimum since October 6.
• The Ministry of Health has registered a drug for the treatment of coronavirus “MIR 19”, developed by FMBA. It was tested in the red zone of hospitals on patients with moderate severity of COVID-19. The drug has shown efficacy in comparison with standard therapy; it is planned to use it for treatment in hospitals.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains a very high level of antibodies to COVID-19 after revaccination and the use of a nasal vaccine, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
• In Moscow, the validity period of QR codes for those who have recovered has been extended to a year.
• Russian authorities are studying the experience of other countries in introducing fines for refusing to get vaccinated against coronavirus, said Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor.

• The scientific departments of Rospotrebnadzor have developed a test that can be used to find out whether a person with a coronavirus is infected with the omicron strain or not. Now the test systems are being tested.
• Symptoms of the omicron disease may appear the next day after infection, says the deputy director of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after V.I. G.N. Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor Tatyana Ruzhentsova. The rapid increase in the number of infected in some countries indicates a shorter incubation period with the omicron compared to the delta strain, she said.

• Moscow businessmen were able to compensate for the revenue lost during non-working days in November in two to three weeks, says Vladimir Yefimov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations. According to him, on non-working days there was a decrease in revenue by more than two times, and in a number of industries it reached 80%.

By data WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 275 million people, of which more than 5.3 million have died.

• The leader in the number of confirmed cases remains the United States, where more than 50.5 million infected have been identified. India is in second place (over 34.7 million), in third place is Brazil (over 22.2 million), in fourth place is Great Britain (over 11.5 million), in fifth place is Russia (over 10.2 million). Over 9 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Turkey, over 8.4 million in France.

• The World Health Organization does not recommend vaccinating all children and adolescents against coronavirus, since the likelihood of a severe course of the disease in these age groups is small. At the same time, in some countries of the world, the vaccine is not enough even for those at risk, the WHO notes.

• The Omicron strain of coronavirus will become the dominant variant of COVID-19 in the United States in the near future, warned the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci.

• In Israel, against the background of the spread of the omicron strain SARS-CoV-2, the fifth wave of coronavirus has begun, said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

• From December 20, Germany considers the UK a zone of spread of coronavirus mutations and will restrict the entry of people from the kingdom into its territory.

• In the UK, there was a scandal over the publication of photographs with Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a party during the lockdown period. The meeting took place in May 2020, when the most severe restrictions were in force in the UK and it was impossible to meet in more than two.