Restrictions on QR codes introduced in the regions – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

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The Sputnik Light vaccine will now be used only for revaccination, said Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko. The ministry has already made the necessary changes to the vaccination guidelines.

One would think that such a decision is due to a shortage of the vaccine – that the drug is running out or has ended altogether, at the end of last week several regions reported at once. RG’s own correspondents checked what is happening with vaccination, the rate of which, as the minister said, has quadrupled in the country over the past week. And it turned out: if before the people were chasing KoviVac, now Sputnik Light is in favor. In St. Petersburg, for example, stocks of this vaccine really ran out before the non-working decade. 35 thousand doses remained in polyclinics, but only for those who signed up for vaccinations in advance. But at the same time, you can easily be grafted with “Sputnik V”.

The picture is about the same in Yekaterinburg. There in social networks there were photos from polyclinics: “Sputnik Light” is not. “At the same time, as reported to” RG “in the local headquarters, the supply of” Sputnik V “is 400 thousand doses. In Voronezh, there are three vaccines:” Sputnik V “,” EpiVacCorona “and even 1.5 thousand doses of the scarce” KoviVac “. But” Light “is over.

The situation can be easily explained: there is a huge demand for a vaccine that requires only a single injection, since this is the easiest and fastest way to get the coveted QR code. And with him, you can fly somewhere for a long weekend, and get into a theater or museum, which in the country it was decided not to close. So the calls of epidemiologists to stay at home these days and not to visit crowded places is one thing, but people reason and make plans in their own way.

Epidemiologists urge to stay at home these days, and people are trying to quickly get the coveted QR code so that they are not affected by restrictions

With the vaccine, they promise in the Ministry of Health, there will be no problems – additional consignments will be sent to the regions. But the Ministry of Health closed the opportunity to get vaccinated “quickly” (for previously unvaccinated people). And, I must say, reasonably. The head of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gunzburg, while presenting Sputnik Light in March, said that it was intended primarily for revaccination of those who had been ill and vaccinated earlier. In August, the academician himself got drunk with Light, saying that he was “following the recommendations of the Ministry of Health.” State polyclinics, by the way, did not offer Sputnik Light to “first inoculations”. But in temporary centers and commercial clinics, it was easy to get a “one-time” vaccination. This is what the people decided to take advantage of, realizing that QR codes are being introduced, most likely, seriously and for a long time.

The minister, announcing the change in the rules, explained: in order to reliably protect against the more dangerous “delta” strain, a full-fledged vaccination is needed – in two doses. One of the most authoritative immunologists in the country, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leila Namazova-Baranova stated the same the other day. And the results of studies on both vaccines confirm: the effectiveness of “Sputnik V” is higher, and “Light” protects against “delta”, but on average by 70%.

Meanwhile, the wave of coronavirus continues to grow: yesterday the anti-record was set again – 40,993 cases of infection per day – the absolute maximum since the beginning of the pandemic. The total number of cases since the beginning of the epidemic has exceeded 8.5 million, and the spread of the virus is still above 1 (1.1). This means that we are still far from the plateau.

Against this alarming background, these days the heads of the Ministry of Health and Roszdravnadzor went to the most problematic regions. Mikhail Murashko arrived in Vladimir, his deputies went to Crimea, Oryol, Ulyanovsk, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, Udmurtia, Tatarstan. The problems, in general, are about the same everywhere: it is necessary to establish a clear work of ambulance teams, the routing of patients – to decide who can be treated at home and who needs to be sent to the hospital. The task is also to increase testing, provide hospitals with antiviral drugs and oxygen. For all this, Mikhail Murashko said, the government allocated additional funds: 10.9 billion rubles for drugs for outpatients and more than 4 billion for purchases for hospitals, including expensive drugs.

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