The Authority of the Australian State of Victoria will send all the population – about 7 million people – on a rigid quarantine long at least a week due to the outbreak of a particularly infectious strain of coronavirus. This is reported by the Reuters news agency.
“We encountered a particularly infectious strain of the virus, it spreads faster than any options that we have previously seen,” said James Merlino Prime Minister. He clarified that to transmit from one person to another strain, it is necessary several times less than the time than the ordinary SARS-COV-2.
So far, 26 cases of infection have been confirmed, however, the number of those who are in the risk group, that is, he could grab the disease, estimate in about 10 thousand people. According to the regulations of the quarantine, the state residents will be allowed to leave houses only if they are sent to the state confirmed important work, care for the sick, go to get vaccinated, buy food and other surcharges or are engaged in sports (no more than two hours and in the company not more than two hours than one person). Purchasing and train at the same time allowed only within a radius of 5 kilometers from the house.
Earlier on May 27, the head of the scientific group of the development of new methods for diagnosing human diseases Tsindi Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Camille Hafizov said that coronavirus vaccination could become an annual event.