Herd immunity in St. Petersburg is not yet enough to stop the omicron strain. About this in an interview RIA News said the governor of the city Alexander Beglov.
According to him, the fundamental difference between 2021 and 2020 is the coronavirus vaccine. “Then only those who had been ill had immunity. Now, taking into account the vaccinated, herd immunity in St. Petersburg is more than 80 percent, “Beglov said, noting that this figure is not enough to stop the omicron.
“But this allowed St. Petersburg to pass the fourth peak more confidently than the second wave at the end of 2020,” the head of the city emphasized. He recalled that in the fall of 2021, another rise in the incidence of COVID-19 began.
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“The epidemic develops according to its own laws. There was a seasonal rise in the fall. From the end of September to the end of October, the incidence increased from two to three thousand new cases per day, ”the governor explained. According to him, there was a steady increase in the number of active infected people, and now the city’s residents are on a high plateau.
Beglov noted that the health care system of St. Petersburg in the fall was fully prepared for the growth of loads. “She is fully provided with the necessary medicines, equipment, and protective equipment. We have created the necessary supplies of oxygen, now St. Petersburg is even sharing it with the Leningrad Region and Karelia. ” – he said.
The governor concluded that during the second wave, the city authorities had fine-tuned the triage of infected people through eight out-of-hospital CT centers.
Earlier, big data analyst Alexander Dragan spoke about the likelihood that the omicron coronavirus strain will be able to coexist with the delta strain. This, in turn, could lead to the transformation of the coronavirus pandemic into two parallel epidemics.
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