Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov. Archival photo S.-PETERSBURG, Jan. 3 Herd immunity in St. Petersburg is not enough to stop the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus, the governor of the city Alexander Beglov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
& # 34 ; The fundamental difference (2021. — Ed.) From 2020 is the vaccine. Then only those who had been ill had immunity. Now, taking into account the vaccinated, herd immunity in St. Petersburg is more than 80 percent. It's not enough to stop the new & # 34; omicron & # 34; strain. But this allowed St. Petersburg to pass the fourth peak more confidently than the second wave at the end of 2020 & # 34 ;, — he said.
Beglov recalled that in the fall of 2021 another rise in the incidence of COVID-19 began. «The epidemic is developing according to its own laws. There was a seasonal rise. From the end of September to the end of October, the incidence increased from two to three thousand new cases per day. There was a steady increase in the number of active patients. Now we are at a high plateau, «- said the governor. He noted that the healthcare system of St. Petersburg in the fall, she turned out to be completely ready for the increase in loads. «She is fully provided with the necessary medicines, equipment, protective equipment. We have created the necessary supplies of oxygen, now St. Petersburg is even sharing it with the Leningrad Region and Karelia. In the second wave, we have fine-tuned the sorting of the infected through eight community-acquired CT scans. The queue of ambulances in front of hospitals has become a rarity, «Beglov stressed. In 2021, no one lay in the corridors» to the racial zone, he concluded. 