SARS is coming. Classes in schools are closed for quarantine in Crimea, but the epidemic threshold has not yet been exceeded

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The interregional department of Rospotrebnadzor for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol conducts weekly operational monitoring of the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections in the population of the peninsula.

During the reporting week in the Republic of Crimea, 5,770 people fell ill with acute respiratory viral infections, the rate per 10 thousand/population was 30.4, the epidemic threshold was not exceeded. In Sevastopol, 2,833 people fell ill with respiratory infections over the past week, the rate per 10 thousand/population is 54.2, 35.7% higher than the previous week.— reported the Interregional Department of Rospotrebnadzor.

According to laboratory virological monitoring, the incidence of respiratory infections on the peninsula is due to the active circulation of influenza viruses and viruses of non-influenza etiology.

The situation is under the control of Rospotrebnadzor. Especially in schools and kindergartens.

Today, 37 school classes in 20 schools and 15 groups in 13 kindergartens are closed for influenza and ARVI quarantine. About it RIA Novosti Crimea said the head of the Interregional Department of Rospotrebnadzor Natalya Penkovskaya.

In Simferopol, eight classes in five schools are closed, in Feodosia — five classes in two schools, in Yalta — eight classes in two schools, in the Kirovsky district, seven classes in four schools are closed for quarantine, in the Krasnogvardeisky district — one class, in Sovetsky two classes in two schools, in Alushta three schools have the most classes“, she clarified. — In addition, 15 groups in 13 kindergartens are closed. In Kerch — in three preschool institutions, in the Kirovsky district — in two kindergartens, in Nizhnegorsky three groups in two kindergartens are closed, in Sovetsky — three groups in two kindergartens, in Chernomorsky — four groups are closed in four kindergartens.

The chief sanitary doctor of Crimea noted that the peak incidence of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in the region occurs at the end of January — beginning of February, so such indicators will remain for some time.

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