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The first street lights in Moscow On this day, Moscow celebrates the day of the street lamp. In November 1730, the Senate of the Russian Empire issued a decree on the manufacture of glass lanterns to illuminate Moscow in winter. And already on January 5, 1731 (December 25, 1730 according to the old style), the first street lamps were lit in Moscow. At first, the lanterns gave quite a little light, because they used ordinary candles and oil. However, then oil was replaced by kerosene, then — at the beginning of the XIX century – gas. And at the end of the XIX century, electric lamps appeared. The first electric street lights in Moscow started working in 1880. The development of the street lighting system declined during the First World War, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War. The last gas lamps in the capital were replaced with electric ones

“No cases of infection with variant B.1.640.2 have been detected in Russia. The situation is under the control of Rospotrebnadzor,” the report says. The department also recalled that in two months only about 20 sequences of the new strain were added to the database, and in December only isolated cases were noted. “Given that B.1.640.2 has not received any distribution in two months, there is no reason to believe that it may be of particular interest,” the ministry added. At the end of December, the scientific journal medRxiv published a preprint of a study on a new strain of coronavirus in the south of France, according to which 12 people were infected with it. It was registered in GISAID (Global Virus Genome Database) as B.1.640.2. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that they have been monitoring the situation with the new strain since November. The organization noted that they are

“The worst is definitely behind us. We need to overcome the winter,” said Pollard, who heads the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization at the UK Ministry of Health. “At a certain moment, society must open up. When we open, there will be a moment when there will be a jump in cases of infection, which is why winter may not be the best time [to lift all anti-cancer restrictions],” the scientist added, noting that such a decision “should be made by politicians, not scientists.” The infectious disease specialist told when the situation with COVID-19 will improve Pollard called revaccination of the population from coronavirus every six months an impossible task. “We know that people have high levels of antibodies for several months after the third dose of the vaccine, but we need more data to tell when and how often these vulnerable people will need new doses. We cannot

“The king and Queen, who are fully vaccinated with three injections, have mild symptoms and are doing well given the circumstances,” the court said in a statement. They added that the 75-year-old king and 78-year-old queen are now in self-isolation, experts identify those with whom they have been in contact. According to the agency, in Sweden over the past day, a record high number of people infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus has been detected — over 11.5 thousand people. This happened against the background of the spread of a new strain of “omicron”.