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The day before, the head of the Gamalei Center, Alexander Ginzburg, said that the omicron strain was detected in 30% of coronavirus cases in Moscow. Rospotrebnadzor predicts that in a pessimistic scenario, the number of infections per day may exceed 100 thousand. So far, there are 305 confirmed cases of infection with omicron in the country. The news is being updated.

“Due to the transition after the revolution to the Gregorian calendar, the New Year precedes Christmas, when Orthodox Christians are fasting. For church people, there is some inconvenience in this. Since the Russian Church did not switch to the Gregorian calendar, we got a strange conflict. And as a result, another holiday appeared – the Old New Year, and on this day believers no longer have restrictions related to fasting,” he explained. The historian recalled that January 1 became a New Year’s holiday by decree of Peter I. Before the revolution, Russia lived according to the Julian calendar: then Christmas was celebrated on December 25, at the end of Lent. “After the revolution, the New Year absorbed the attributes of celebrating Christmas — a traditional Christmas tree, gifts to each other, a festive feast, in the conditions of Soviet reality, the holiday took root because there was no politicization in

“This virus is on its way to becoming endemic. There is no doubt about it,” the expert said, noting, however, that the pandemic is now “in full swing”: the incidence rate is growing, and with it the burden on the countries’ health systems. “We have not reached this stage yet,” she stressed. The infectious disease specialist added that the virus is changing, so it is difficult to predict the development of a pandemic. In addition, different countries are fighting the pandemic in different ways, she noted. “There is no such predictability here as with the flu and [other] typical seasonal infections. Maybe we will come to this, but we haven’t come yet,” van Kerkhove explained. In December last year, WHO head Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus suggested that 2022 could be the year of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. The fact that the coronavirus is likely to become endemic, the organization’s

“The incidence, of course, is lower than in Europe and the USA, but not the same as it is in statistics, because, of course, the peculiarity of this disease is different from what it was,” RIA Novosti quotes the specialist. As explained by the deputy president of the RAO, “Omicron”-strain, in comparison with previous versions of the coronavirus, causes a more gentle course of the disease, although it is more contagious. Onishchenko noted that in the USA, where there is currently a very high incidence, the new strain came earlier, and the holidays ended on January 2, that is, Americans were the first to go to work and began to get infected. “We have a head start, we have just started work, a timely instruction has been given to develop measures. If we now make it so that our collective immunity is not 63%, but we bring it to at least

Russian Press Day January 13 , 1703 in The first issue of the Vedomosti newspaper (unrelated to the modern Vedomosti newspaper of the same name), founded by the decree of Peter the Great, was published in Moscow. He considered the newspaper as an important means of fighting for reforms and the assertion of the power of the Russian Empire. In 1992, the Day of the Russian Press was established in honor of this event. 1898: Emile Zola sent an open letter “I accuse” to the French government On January 13, 1898, the French writer Emile Zola sent an open letter (known as “I accuse”) to the French government about the Dreyfus case. The article accused the authorities of anti-Semitism and illegal imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus. Zola pointed out the bias of the military court and the lack of serious evidence. Zola’s article caused a wide resonance in the cultural world, becoming

The corresponding article was published in the Astrophysical Journal. In 2018, astronomers discovered the supernova AT2018cow – the letters COW were generated by a computer, but because of the similarity with the English word “cow”, they became a stable designation for this type of supernova. This type was distinguished by an unusual brightness in the visible spectrum: about ten times brighter than any other known supernova, but at the same time it faded more quickly. In addition, AT2018cow was a source of powerful, rapidly changing X-rays, which led astronomers to assume that they witnessed the birth of a black hole or neutron star. Scientists have explained the formation of huge cyclones on Jupiter A new supernova, AT2020mrf, was discovered in July 2020 by Yuhan Yao from California Institute of Technology and her colleagues. They did this with the help of the Russian-German telescope “Spektr-RG”. The researchers verified this data using the

“In a day and a half, we received orders from large state corporations, from the subjects of the Russian Federation, and from the Far East to the European part of our country. We will ensure the working turnover within 7-10 days,” she said (quoted by TASS). According to her, the agency’s production capacity will be 1 million test systems per week with a possible increase to 2-3 million. The test system for detecting omicron, developed by the FMBA, was registered in Russia on January 11. The agency stressed that the developed set of reagents allows for 1.5 hours to identify and differentiate the genovariants of the omicron and delta strains in one test tube. The reagents were developed at the Center for Strategic Planning and Management of Biomedical Health Risks of the FMBA of Russia and are intended for use in clinical laboratory diagnostics. Omicron was discovered in southern Africa

He noted that the city is ready to work under time constraints. “We will certainly resort to them if such a need arises. Only in a situation when the capacity of our medical institutions will be at the limit,” Yefimov said. He added that in previous waves, decisions on the introduction of restrictions were made point-by-point, according to the situation and allowed “almost painlessly for the economy to overcome peak situations.” “Therefore, in this situation, we will also look at the level of morbidity, but most importantly, at the number of hospitalizations …, therefore, we will make operational decisions on the introduction or non-introduction of restrictions, based on the number of hospitalizations and the load of the Moscow healthcare system,” Yefimov said. According to him, it is premature to say exactly what restrictions can be introduced, but “their set is clear”, the scenarios have been worked out.