Deputy Mayor of Moscow Rakov: after days off, the incidence of COVID has decreased by 50 percent decreased by 50 percent. Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, reported this in an interview with Vesti TV channel, TASS reports.
45 “, – she noted, adding that it was also possible to free up 1,400 beds, and if this trend continues, a number of buildings of ordinary city hospitals can be returned to normal operation.
At the same time, the vice-mayor of the capital warned that COVID-19 is a very dangerous, serious and insidious disease, and the situation could change at any time.
Rakova also said that 50 percent of previously vaccinated Muscovites had been revaccinated against coronavirus. “One and a half million people were vaccinated more than half a year ago, and only 50 percent have been re-vaccinated so far,” she said.
Rakova added that older people living in Moscow social institutions received mandatory vaccinations last winter and were revaccinated in the summer. Now there is no morbidity among this category of citizens.
On November 17, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced a decrease in the workload of the city's hospitals intended for the treatment of those infected with coronavirus.
As of November 18, over the past day 37,374 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia, of which 4,062 were in Moscow. The total number of infections in the country all the time reached 9,219,912.