In St. Petersburg, more than 3.14 million citizens were vaccinated, including over 2 thousand children. Herd immunity in the city has reached 100 percent. But officials note that it may not be of very high quality, since cases were taken into account when a resident of the region fell ill or was vaccinated more than six months ago. Accordingly, his level of antibodies may be quite low at present. The authorities of St. Petersburg reported that they had reached the level of herd immunity of 100%. On the air of the St. Petersburg TV channel, Andrey Sarana, First Deputy Chairman of the Health Committee, said that the calculations took into account recovered and vaccinated residents of the northern capital.
Representatives of the city health committee clarified to RIA Novosti that they meant 100% of the plan according to the methodology of the Ministry of Health.
Sarana told a St. Petersburg TV channel that more than 3.14 million citizens, including 2.4 thousand children, have been vaccinated. “We have 190 points, there are 92 points for children, 50 are mobile. Yesterday we vaccinated more than seven thousand people, people are coming, there is a demand,” the official assured.
In a comment, REN Sarana said that the quality of such immunity might not be very high.
“You need to understand that the quality of immunity, given the fact that many of us were ill more than six months ago, and a certain number of us were vaccinated more than six months ago, then purely by numbers it turns out that, yes, we have [100 -percentage level] have been reached, but it may be, let's say, not quite high quality,” he said.
Sarana explained that the level of antibodies in some of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg is reduced. Therefore, the authorities urge to be revaccinated six months after vaccination or to be vaccinated a year after the disease.
On February 11, it became known that in the Moscow region the level of herd immunity had reached 66.5%. On the stopcoronavirus.rf portal, it was specified that 4.9 million people were fully vaccinated, and more than 5.1 million received the first component.
In Moscow on the same day there were 59.5% of citizens with immunity to coronavirus. A week earlier, this figure was at the level of 63.2%, and at the end of December 2021 - 71.4%. As of February 11, 7.2 million Muscovites have injected the first component of the coronavirus drug, and 6,803,415 people have undergone a full protective procedure.
At the same time, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova named the leaders in terms of the level of herd immunity. In St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, Karelia, the Murmansk region, Tuva, according to her, on February 11 there were more than 80% of people with antibodies to the virus.
As of February 15, about 14.5 million people were registered in Russia during the entire period of the coronavirus pandemic, who were diagnosed with COVID-19. Of these, more than 11.4 million have recovered and 341,635 Russians have died.
Over the past 24 hours alone, experts have identified over 166.6 thousand new cases in all regions of the country. In the past 24 hours, 21,833 people were admitted to hospitals with a diagnosis of coronavirus infection, an increase of 108.9% compared to February 14. There were 704 deaths and more than 137.8 thousand recovered.
According to virologist Anatoly Altshtein, Russia is currently experiencing the peak of the fifth wave of coronavirus, which was caused by a new strain of "omicron". “After a while it will go down. This is not only an epidemiological pattern, but the biology is behind it,” he says.
He stated that with such a high level of incidence as it is now, the genome of the virus "spoils", which makes it not as viable as at the beginning of the wave. “Here it is necessary that people are vaccinated, so that they continue to carry out anti-epidemic measures,” he added.
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