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Almost 800 deaths and 24,000 new cases in the last 24 hours. According to Rospotrebnadzor, Federal Consumer Protection and Surveillance Service, 70% of the cases that are mowing down the Russian Federation are due to the Delta that spreads very quickly and tightly in the country.
If last May the mortality rate had almost returned to prepandemic levels, (and we looked with hope towards the border, which however remained closed for the holidays), now the spread and death records for the new variant are frowning on the forehead. by the Russian authorities more than in January: the total number of deaths since the beginning of the emergency has exceeded 151 thousand.
Moscow must curb the replication of the virus, but also that of health dissent, increasingly widespread and profound, which has proved to be more robust than the political one. There is a huge headless and transversal frond to the anti-Covid solution in the state, which was the first in the world to register a vaccine to resist the virus. The majority of Russians – those who do not take to the streets to protest the Kremlin’s moves – know how to disobey the president when he repeats his appeals to citizens to push them to use Sputnik. The figures also indicate a clear break in the population that has decided to exercise its rebellion against clinical diktats: the surveys of the Levada center reveal that over half of the 146 million Russians are not afraid of being infected by Covid and the arm will not be uncovered. for the puncture. Of them just over 18 million have been fully vaccinated (21 have received the first dose), some even go to the third. The independent institute also quantified the disenchantment of white coats: in May 31% of Russian doctors said they will not use any of the three serums produced by the Federation.
Between the state of emergency and that of necessity, the ram heads of the regions act, which do not move in synchrony to curb contagions. In August Sochi, a favorite national destination since foreign borders were closed, will no longer welcome the unvaccinated. If Buryatia entered Siberia in semi-isolation regime, in Moscow, where 90% of the infections are due to the Delta, the mayor Serghey Sobyanin made the reverse with the decree number 42 issued on July 16: for entering the bars and restaurants of the capital will no longer need the QR code that every vaccinee in the Federation has. It lasted only three weeks, before being eliminated due to protests by the owners of the premises and the Muscovites themselves, the requirement of a vaccination certificate. It will be possible to go back to drinking in bars and dancing in the disco, but not in the almost two hundred clubs that have closed the doors due to the economic crisis generated by the virus.
President Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, in a Dostoevskian movement, blamed the “nihilism” of the spread of the infection and reported that for those who decide not to protect themselves with serum, “discrimination is inevitable: people without vaccine or immunity they will not be able to work everywhere, they are a threat to themselves and others ”. If the emergency situation is red for the Kremlin, the market is black: since more and more cities and regions impose the obligation of vaccination for public workers and have issued severe restrictions for those who give up inoculation, many Russians have decided to resort to fake green passes.
Despite the cyberspace soldiers of Roskomnadzor, the Federal Service for the supervision of connections and mass communication, are at work, and over a hundred sites have already been canceled, the channels on which to buy fake vaccination certificates continue to multiply. The new clandestine market is flourishing on the platform most used by Russians, Vkontakte, up to encrypted social networks such as Telegram. Just provide your name, surname, date and place of birth, and after a few clicks and a cost ranging from 2800 rubles, about forty euros, up to 6 thousand, you get the medical passpartout certifying that the double dose has been inoculated. For those who trade them, the penalty is prison, but buyers will also be brought to justice, the authorities promise.
The journalist from Baza, who published photos of the fake pass that they sent to him by post, writes that sometimes the fake consists in having the vaccination taken place appear in the data of the official registers, even if the patient has never presented himself for the injection. Like other Russian reporters, he failed to figure out where the doses whose real number is used on official documents go. Perhaps on another black market, which no one has yet noticed.
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