Twenty members of the Federation Council are currently ill with coronavirus infection. This was announced at the plenary session by the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, Valentina Matvienko. According to her, all the senators became infected with the Omicron strain.
In this regard, Matvienko asked her colleagues to comply with sanitary and epidemiological requirements and reduce contacts to a minimum until the next wave of coronavirus subsides.
This week it became known that the leader of the New People party Alexei Nechaev and the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky were infected with COVID-19 in the State Duma. The latter required hospitalization. The politician is in the presidential administration hospital. According to some reports, he has bilateral pneumonia, 50-75% of his lungs are affected. On the eve it was reported that Zhirinovsky was unable to breathe on his own, so the doctors connected him to a ventilator.
According to the official data of the federal operational headquarters for combating COVID-19, as of February 11, over the past day in Russia, the number of newly identified patients with coronavirus infection amounted to 203,949 people. This is a new daily high since the start of the pandemic. Currently, the total number of cases of COVID-19 since the start of observation has reached 13,731,794 people.
Over the past day, 722 deaths were recorded among patients with coronavirus infection. According to the operational headquarters, a total of 338,813 people with confirmed COVID-19 have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
