The State Duma proposes to conduct mass and free testing of Russians for COVID-19, as well as take additional measures in connection with the emergence of a new strain of the Omicron virus. With such an initiative, the head of the headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, Tatyana Golikova, was approached by the leadership of the Just Russia faction in parliament (the document is at the disposal of Izvestia).
The first deputy chairman of the Just Russia faction in the State Duma, Oleg Nilov, says in his address that the existing measures are unlikely to protect against the penetration of new strains of coronavirus into the Russian Federation.
“States such as Israel, China, Japan, with a minimum level of morbidity, are taking the most stringent restrictive measures, up to the closure of borders,” the document says.
Also, the deputy chairman of the faction notes that vaccination is not enough for a large-scale fight against infection – it is worth focusing also on quarantine and testing.
“Do you think that it is necessary not only to carry out mass vaccination, but also to identify cases on a massive scale through regular testing, to interrupt the chain of infection through quarantine measures? This requires hundreds, millions, billions of rapid tests, PCR tests, affordable or free, ”the request says.
“We need an additional powerful shield in the fight against covid – mass, free testing of Russians, because mass vaccination is the main, but not the only way to fight the spread of infection. Today, in antiquarian measures, we observe a clear imbalance that prevents us from effectively confronting the coronavirus threat and its new terrible component – the Omicron strain, – the parliamentarian explained to Izvestia.
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