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Russian Consumer Rights Watchdog Says No Concerns Regarding COVID-19 Situation

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Sputnik) - The current situation with COVID-19 in Russia is not a matter of concern and no new restrictions are required, Anna Popova, the head of Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said.
"Today's epidemiological situation with regard to the new coronavirus infection has certain peculiarities, but it does not cause alarm," Popova told reporters at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) on Monday.
She emphasized that it is still important to observe the restrictive measures currently in place.
"No additional [COVID-19] measures, restrictive measures, are required today," Popova specified.
According to the Rospotrebnadzor head, the share of hospitalizations from all those infected with coronavirus in Russia does not exceed 1.5%.
The COVID-19 infection rate in Russia has gone down from 69% five weeks ago to just 21% last week, Popova said.
"The situation we have today - a fairly successful overcoming, within 5 weeks, of the spike caused by the new sub-variants of omicron - shows that our collective immunity is quite high," Popova told reporters at the EEF.
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She specified that the coronavirus infection rate has been falling steadily in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
"The current situation does not cause special alarm, today, there is no information about any vaccine deficiency," Popova told reporters.
She added that if no new variants of the coronavirus emerge, Rospotrebnadzor will not be introducing any new COVID-19 restrictions in Russia.
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