Which regions face the introduction of a mask regime because coronavirus returns

On August 17, for the first time since the end of March, an anti-record of more than 30 thousand new infections per day was broken in the country. On the eve of Rospotrebnadzor, it was recommended to introduce a mask regime for those subjects of the Russian Federation, where the incidence per week is more than 50 cases per 100,000 people.  analyzed this information and compiled its own rating of regions, counting how many infections were recorded on August 10–16, and found out that 21 out of 85 subjects are not yet threatened with restrictions.

Rospotrebnadzor states that the epidemic situation for COVID-19 in the Russian Federation “is characterized by a continuing increase in the number of detected cases”, while 48.6% of registered diseases occur in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Moscow Region.

According to the results of the 32nd week of 2022, according to Rospotrebnadzor, 175,680 cases of COVID-19 were registered in the country, or 119.71 per 100,000 population, which is 49.2% higher than last week. The excess of the average incidence rate was registered in 18 regions, the ministry assured.

To date, sanitary restrictions have been introduced in Buryatia (31st place in the regional rating, where 99.1 infections per 100,000 population were registered from August 10 to 16) and the Altai Republic (5th place and 211.3 cases per 100 thousand people). thousand). They promised to return the restrictions in the Ulyanovsk region and Yamal, occupying 53rd and 46th place, respectively, in terms of the weekly incidence of COVID-19.

According to, in addition to the aforementioned Republic of Altai, the TOP-10 subject — leaders in COVID-19 infections included St. Petersburg (443.2 cases per 100 thousand people), Moscow (390.4 cases per 100 thousand), Yakutia (248, 8 cases per 100 thousand) and Kalmykia (231.9 cases per 100 thousand). Following in order are Moscow (183.7 cases per 100 thousand), Leningrad (182.6), Arkhangelsk (176.2), Tula (174.8), and Tyumen (174.7) regions.

The second ten subjects in terms of the weekly increase in the incidence of coronavirus infection, which is supposed to introduce a mask regime, were the Republic of Tyva (159.6 cases per 100 thousand), Ryazan region (147.4), Sevastopol: (146.9), Primorsky Krai (146 .2), Voronezh region (139.8), Kamchatka region (134.9), Oryol region (131.9), Khakassia (131.1), Novgorod (126.2) and Kaliningrad (125.4) regions.

In total, according to 's calculations, sanitary restrictions will be returned according to the Rospotrebnadzor formula in 64 Russian regions, only in 21 regions, the incidence rate is below 50 cases per 100,000 population. The best situation is in Ingushetia (11.6 cases per 100 thousand), Chechnya (13.9), Tatarstan (15.6), Nenets Autonomous Okrug (29.1), Dagestan (29.9), Bashkortostan (30.1 ), Kurgan (30.4) and Kirov (30.5) regions, Karachay-Cherkessia (31.6) and Mari El (34.2).