Doctor in the intensive care unit of the department for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 MOSCOW, Jan 12 The low incidence rates of coronavirus in Russia compared to Europe and the United States are explained by the ease of the disease and the fact that the holidays in the Russian Federation have just ended, and in America people have gone to work already on January 2, the Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Education, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences told RIA Novosti Sciences Gennady Onishchenko. According to the headquarters of the Russian Federation on Wednesday, the number of cases of COVID-19 in Russia per day increased by 17,946 — up to 10,702,150. 3 million cases of COVID-19, an all-time high. Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, said on Wednesday that up to 30% of the coronavirus strains circulating in Moscow, as of January 10, are attributed to the new omicron coronavirus strain. 
The virologist named the timing of the new wave of coronavirus in Russia «The incidence is, of course, lower than in Europe and the United States, but not the same as in the statistics, because, naturally, the peculiarity of this disease is different from what it was,» Onishchenko said. He explained that since the beginning of the pandemic, there were COVID-19 patients who did not have a pronounced clinical picture. With omicron, the course of the disease is more benign than with previous variants of the virus, although it itself is more infectious, Onishchenko noted. 
WHO said coronavirus becomes endemic According to him, in the USA, where the incidence is very high now, the omicron came earlier, and the holidays in America ended around January 2, that is, Americans went to work and began to get infected earlier than Russians. handicap, we just went to work, a timely order was given — to develop measures.If we now make it so that we do not have a collective immunity of 63%, but we bring it to at least 70%, convincing the nation to vaccinate and revaccinate, it will reduce «, — stressed Onishchenko. 
30 November 2021, 11:15
