Day: December 7, 2021

Pentagon: American reconnaissance aircraft did not threaten a passenger airliner over the Black Sea a civilian liner en route from Tel Aviv to Moscow. He stressed that the American aircraft did not make dangerous or unprofessional maneuvers over the Black Sea, RIA Novosti reports. There was no such danger, no unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers — certainly not from the American military. This was a situation that was easily resolved with common sense and air traffic control routines John Kirby Pentagon spokesman A spokesman for the US military said that situations when two planes are at the same altitude occur “thousands of times” around the world, and Russia exaggerates an incident that “did not happen.” How it all began A passenger plane en route Tel Aviv – Moscow was forced to change direction in order to avoid rapprochement with a US reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea. One of the two

Alaska will begin testing a new radar that tracks hypersonic weapons and missiles intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons. This is reported by Interfax. According to Vice Admiral John Hill, director of the US Defense Agency's Anti-Ballistic Missile Agency, the construction of an early warning radar has been completed, and now it is possible to begin the testing phase. “It will enable Northern Command to better defend the United States against ballistic and hypersonic missile threats,” Hill said. When fully operational, the radar could provide an unprecedented ability to simultaneously search and track multiple small targets. , including all classes of ballistic missiles at very long ranges. At the end of October, the US Army and Navy conducted the second firing tests of the first stage of a solid-propellant hypersonic missile engine. The tests took place in Promontory, Utah. In particular, the thrust vector control system of a solid-propellant rocket

Skoltech Professor Bazykin allowed an explosive spread of the omicron strain in Russia Skoltech Professor Georgy Bazykin predicted the rate of spread of the omicron strain in Russia. He recalled that this variant of COVID-19 has the property of moving exponentially, RIA Novosti reports. The scientist emphasized that in South Africa about two months have passed since the first appearance of the omicron to the identified cases of infection. According to him, the number of variants that are sequenced is comparable to what is happening in Africa. Bazykin noted that this is why the omicron strain may not be noticed in Russia for some time, although it will begin to spread. He also allowed an explosive increase in the incidence of this type of COVID-19. “If the frequency of a variant grows exponentially, then at the very beginning it seems to you that everything is in order. This is a

Rospotrebnadzor: more than 59.46 million Russians or 40.7% of the population have been vaccinated against influenza the number of Russians vaccinated against influenza. Almost 60 million citizens or 40.7 percent of the country's population were vaccinated. “As of December 4 of this year, more than 59.46 million people have been vaccinated against influenza in the Russian Federation, which is 40.7 percent of the total population of the country “, – explained in the department. The situation is under the control of Rospotrebnadzor. The vaccination campaign against influenza continues in all constituent entities of Russia. On November 30, the share of Russian citizens vaccinated against influenza was 37.6 percent of the population, or 54.9 million people. Epidemic thresholds of morbidity were exceeded in 46 regions. In the 48th week of 2021 (November 29 – December 5), in Russia as a whole, the incidence of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections increased

Chulanov, an infectious disease specialist of the Ministry of Health: vaccination Vaccination is the only way to avoid an outbreak of the omicron strain in Russia, said Chief infectious disease specialist of the Ministry of Health Vladimir Chulanov on the air of the Doc Tok program on Channel One. According to the doctor, the omicron's ability to transmit from person to person is more pronounced. “And in terms of how to protect yourself, I would like to call for vaccination, because this is the only tool that allows you to manage the risks of coronavirus infection,” he said. The specialist called vaccinations a means that can help prevent an outbreak of disease Earlier, Doctor of Medical Sciences Dmitry Edelev emphasized that in order to protect against a new strain, it is necessary to be vaccinated with Sputnik V. Doctors in South Africa , where the infection appeared, are vaccinated with