online, i congratulate girna koval and this is a program about health during the war, when an enemy missile can fly in at any moment, few people think about the danger of viruses , the war made us forget about covid, and agree , it seemed that such a problem did not exist , and we simply switched our attention to more serious threats, and the coronavirus has existed all this time and is now starting to become more active once again, experts are predicting a new wave of the pandemic for the fall , doctors are mobilizing their forces, so today we will talk about covid, why are there cases of infection again more, which one prevails there now and what is characteristic of it, we will learn whether to prepare for new quarantine restrictions and what is the situation with vaccines in

ukraine and let's talk about all this in turn. so, almost 80% of new cases of coronavirus disease registered recently in the united states of america and the eu are a new version of umicron was discovered in february this year, the chief state sanitary doctor of ukraine, ihor kuzin, stated this, what is the current pandemic picture in the world? is a new wave of the epidemic threatening us, our journalist anna found out olenkova so let's see the plot new strains new subtypes new rules the coronavirus in the world does not infect the world in the expanding bey five subtype of the strain in micron so the virus continues to develop some factors contribute to this close communication of people during travels neglect of anti-epidemiological measures refusal of masks and violation of distance number of deaths has also been increasing over the past

five weeks, the united states is leading in the number of coronavirus patients, there are currently almost 4 million active patients, and recently joe biden got sick for the second time 70% of all cases that are diagnosed in the usa fall on this case, e.e. saturday, codes up to 19, according to marina, in the usa, quarantine rules are introduced separately for each state, so some states are distinguished by stricter restrictions, currently masks are mandatory only in medical institutions and mandatory uh, in state institutions, uh, cafes, restaurants, streets, all this, people can walk calmly without caress, but the question is when will all the prohibitions change, because everything is constantly changing, vaccination remains mandatory, which in most countries of the world, however now, not only for adults, children from six months and older are vaccinated literally after the day before yesterday, two days

ago. new rules have already come out that are now mandatory for everyone, that is, even what i said that people who enter the country under various programs , including ukrainians yes, they have to vaccinate all children from 6 months. that is, it is already a mandatory rule, but italy, which suffered from covid-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, now freely accepts tourists from all over the world, now it is the tourist season in italy, summer and supermarkets on the streets restaurants, bars, uh, there are no restrictions at all, they don’t control the green pass or uh, the vaccination certificate is mandatory, wearing masks remains only for visits to hospitals and public transport when entering italy, at the moment, no one uh, hmm, must fill out the messenger lakeiterform is such a special form that existed last year.

in other words, there are no restrictions at all, and while europe is recovering from the pandemic and gradually returning to the usual rhythm of life, asian countries are breaking anti-records every day for the number of new of covid-19 cases and the number of deaths, we observe an increase in mortality in the regions of southeast asia, while at the end of the world it decreases and stabilizes in europe, this is not the situation in which we want to be, the mortality rate that we see now is very similar to the period of march 2020, but well, then we didn’t have therapeutic measures. and there were no vaccines. and although the numbers are still not lower than then, thanks to collective immunity , the mortality rate should not be so high, so this is the situation in the world, and in ukraine, the incidence the number of coronavirus cases began to increase during the last

four weeks, more cases are recorded in conditionally safe areas, because patients there are more likely to consult doctors, and in the past week, 3,893 new cases of the disease were officially detected in our country, this is 40% more than a week earlier, doctors hospitalized 1,763 patients and beds were full for the treatment of patients with coronavirus is now 4.5%. this is a low indicator, but fatalities still occur from complications of the coronavirus, 16 people died in a week and a week earlier, 14 experts are already talking about a new wave of the pandemic and it is expected that it will start in ukraine, as it did two years ago, from the chernivtsi region. now it is leading in the number of new registered patients with the coronavirus and almost half

of the beds in the infectious disease departments are filled. out of 16 cases, four happened in the chernivtsi region, so whether the region is preparing for the start of a new wave and what the current situation is, we will find out right now by contacting us, an infectious disease doctor from the chernivtsi regional clinical hospital olha kobevko olya i congratulate you good day and i would like to know how we are returning to this topic of covid with you two years ago, i would like to know from you personally what the current situation is in the chernivtsi region and whether there really is such a spike in the incidence of the disease during the last two weeks, especially although information and

they don't really look at the realities because if we talk about, for example, my department was filled to the top 100%, because we only had 30 beds open and there were 45 patients, 42 patients, what else last week, well, even at the beginning of this week, that's why, again, i understand that we will not move away from these statistics from increasing the level of the number of beds and the definition of it , that is, in percentage terms of the number of diseases, but i can say that today the situation is not as difficult as it was for two years, there is no need to worry because the main thing for us now is to pay attention to the fact that there are 99 people in hospitals 99% of patients

are those who are not vaccinated and warned in order to don't worry for the future, you just need to get vaccinated or already get a booster dose, who else has been vaccinated before, in your personal opinion, tell me why chernivtsi region, why, like two years ago, again, this peak starts exactly from chernivtsi region, a very simple explanation, we are a border zone, especially e- it is happiness like that, well, i wouldn’t say migration, modern movement , or visiting a-a countries like italy , for example, because there are many wage -earners with relatives who work in italy, and that’s true. bukovinians most often go to europe because it is close to us here from the city itself, it is 630 km. this is already starting romania, that is, the first border. therefore, this is probably the main factor, just as

it was with the first case, when we really came people, there are a lot of people from italy, wage-earners who came home to their relatives before easter, well, this is usual and normal, for sure, if you look at it territorially, the main thing is that it should be usual for the heads of medicine in order to warn in advance and think ahead, this is for so that we don't get into difficult peak moments olya, if we're talking about the study, uh, are they finding out which virus prevails in the chernivtsi region ? well, like all the two years of the pandemic and how about all the three ministers that we experienced during the coronavirus pandemic eh, practicing doctors, that is, those who work in the practice, those who work directly with patients, do not have such information, we know that there are several cases of a new static micron, there are

several cases, and somewhere there is even a micron of course. that is, we will receive information from social networks and mass media practicing doctors home now this information is not provided to us, we do not know which of the patients are there, it does not affect the treatment , it does not affect the care of the sick, it does not affect the only moment. this is really a practical activity of the doctors themselves, which would add an opportunity to study the case more practically, that is, knowing that one patient has one stamp and another has a different stamp, then we could compare, we could do some analysis, but unfortunately in practice we can not do this, all the information is only in laboratory centers, i.e. those that examine the samples and somewhere with the managers and everything is absolutely in practical medicine, we do not know who has what olya, if we talk specifically about people who are in the hospital, most often - these are people of various

ages, and we have a mortality rate of 35-year- old guy and older people, but most of them are people who are not vaccinated, these people who have complicated and-and some concomitant diseases and or have already developed some complications such as a stroke, so these people are in a hospital, although i will honestly say that on today, inpatients, the infectious department , they look much calmer, one might say , because not everyone is on an oxygen subsidy, not everyone needs oxygen, and we go to the department, we don’t hear those terrible sounds of shortness of breath, and i cough from that. well, people, that is, now it’s more like that is a stable and calmer wave olya, what could you advise all our viewers who are currently watching our program

, is it possible to help yourself, well, in addition to what you said about the need to get vaccinated, i think everyone knows this because we have been talking about it for two years what needs to be done, what other advice can you give that are practical so that they are effective, there are several messengers that i hear a lot of accusations against the doctors that supposedly with the invasion on february 24, covid suddenly disappeared, this is not true, we uh we observed a decrease in the number patients back in january and by the middle of february, we really had very few patients with covid before the invasion, and i understand today that the importance of the war is much higher than the covid problem, the main thing is to keep medical staff now in order to they could take care of these patients, he should provide them with help, but with the ukrainians themselves, we must understand that this is the problem of the pandemic and covid from the

world has not disappeared from ukraine in the same way. we just talk about it less because we have much bigger problems and we understand what is needed getting vaccinated will make it easier for the person himself, if he does not, god forbid, he will get sick, and it will also make the work of doctors easier. and we must understand that a lot of doctors have gone abroad now under a program such as oversovereignty in and so on we have to understand this. we have to help all of this, except for vaccination and another moment when they say and criticize that why don't you make them wear masks now? we, as doctors, also understand and do not insist on this because we understand that the importance of war, the importance of it, is a problem collaboration, the importance of the problem of drgs from different cities, they, er, can have a negative effect, it is the masks that can affect this, so we must understand what we

must do in order for ukraine to survive. business should work in order to fill the budget , institutions should work so that we can somehow support the country in this difficult time, and we, especially ukrainians, should simply treat it as our home, process information, get vaccinated, limit yourself, of course , in contacts, and if you can you admit that you are sick , limit yourself in contact in order not to endanger others, because in every family there are now people who are engaged in volunteering or who are going to war and we must warn that that one of them could get sick now in such a terrible time olya, i want to thank you for being with us today, i was very glad to see you and i am waiting for new meetings on the air, and i want to remind our viewers that we were in touch with you olga kobevko, an infectious disease specialist at the chernivtsi regional clinical hospital. well, as you understood , vaccination can really help stop the virus

, or rather, it won’t help. however , it will ease the symptoms and how the covid itself will pass. how will you get sick? definitely it will help, and you know, more and more cases of coronavirus disease have been recorded in the lviv region in recent weeks. so we can say that in the last week, in particular, the increase was 30%. and you can name a lot of reasons, but one and the main reason for the deterioration of the epidemic situation here is seen in the displacement of the population, because many ukrainians come to lviv on their way back to ukraine from european countries and bring the virus reports, as we talked about the chernivtsi region. lviv oblast is such a border city, that is why lviv oblast can also be said in general

that the situation here is due to the fact that it is a border location . guests are here with us, the head of the health care department of the humanitarian policy department of the lviv city council, lesya kubetska, ms. lesya, i greet you . good afternoon, ms. lesya. please tell me which the current situation in lviv oblast, because if you heard our previous conversation with an infectious disease doctor from chernivtsi oblast, she said that chernivtsi oblast is such a border zone , and that's why the incidence rate has now increased, what can i say about lviv oblast? to say about lviv, there are actually situations in lviv.

i am so uncritical. thank god that we are bravado . for example, here is the investigator february. at that time, we had pizza incidence and more success per day and accordingly the incidence rate it gradually began to fall already in march-april, we had from 5 to 20 people a day, and in june we had from one to five. that is, we had such a summer break. so you can say a pause, but still, we already feel in in late july, we felt an increase in the incidence of the disease, and at the beginning of august, we already recorded up to 50 cases per day. as of today, we have 157 patients who are outpatients, they are treated by family

doctors, and we have 25 patients undergoing inpatient treatment. e ensure provision of medical care as family doctors, including we have two territorial medical associations that provide inpatient medical care to patients who are hospitalized, and in terms of security, of course, our institutions are fully equipped with everything necessary to provide medical care we have enough help for such patients and there are oxygen stations and e oxygen points next to each bed e including a sufficient number of oxygen concentrators medicine concentrators here e-e still we all know that the greatest salvation becomes e ms. lesya's vaccinations. please tell me. if we are talking about lviv, has the

city in general somehow prepared for the fact that there will be a new wave of the pandemic, and can we say that there are enough vaccines and enough tests and enough beds, well, treatment of doctors who will treat, since we know that now war, well, you can say that we have always been in such a state of mind, because we understand that in april codes did not happen, that the pandemic has not stopped yet, and our hospitals are always ready, as i have already listed. they have certain in order to provide medical help and we have a sufficient amount of vaccine, we have not stopped vaccination, we are constantly continuing it , we have inpatient points at each polyclinic , which provide statistics every day that

they have vaccinated 60-7% of the total and number of the population of the lviv mtg is of course we continue vaccination we have already started the second booster dose eh now the only thing er, in people wearing masks, well, because the incidence as such was not high. yes, but it should be noted that how to deal with the fact that we need statics now to understand that we are going to fall and epidemiology of aesthetics also predict what will happen to us eh another wave because a new micron stamp was discovered yes uh five yes what is some

inscription of handkerchiefs faster than uh previous types yes although it is much easier to flow but still we already have uh three dead er, who had concomitant serious diseases, er, and these were elderly people old age, so the emphasis is on the fact that people, especially old people, who have the severity of the disease, and in general, patients who have to communicate, should first of all be vaccinated, ms. lesino, but you said about how this new micron stamp works, i want to ask you if there are any studies at all because i asked our previous speaker, an infectious disease doctor from the chernivtsi region. she said that at the moment they are not conducting such studies or are studies

being conducted in lviv, which stamp exactly detected in a person who fell ill with, well, at the moment , the actual detection of this new headquarters of the condition in lviv is not carried out, but um, i know that research and analysis are so traced back to our uh center in kyiv, and it is possible there uh what research is being carried out, i cannot tell you specifically, mrs. lesya, and i would like to hear your advice or appeals to the people of lviv, to the internally displaced persons who are in lviv and now live in this city, what could you advise them for that so that it is possible to restrain here this peak of morbidity so that it does not occur in lviv, the only advice i can offer is that we all need to understand that our procedure is

only vaccinations, and of course we already have an increase in the disease due to this in public cities, how should the mask regime be, a person should understand if she visits public places and drives vehicles, and she must wash her hands often and treat with an antiseptic. well, keep your distance, of course, mrs. lesya. well, i want to thank you for being with us today at take care of yourself and we were contacted by lesya kubetska, head of the health care department of the department of humanitarian policy of the lviv city council. we continue our broadcasts . or they are carried out, but not at the same level, if we wanted, we can understand that there is a war in the country now, but still, according to statistics, in ukraine, the first

case of infection with a new variant of the e strain was recorded in mikron , and this infection was discovered in volyn, they say that it is it was at mikron b a5 and it literally happened two days ago and the woman returned from italy and now the new diseases are mostly caused by the strain in micron b a5, as doctors say according to their observations, it spreads faster and is transmitted more easily, immunity is acquired after the disease and as a result of vaccination at the same time, as we already heard today, the course of the disease is easier than it was with the delta, respectively, the level of hospitalization and mortality is lower, but there are two unpleasant points, unlike the previous strains, in micron, it is more often striking elderly people and attacks the lungs. so , is this true? now we will find out what needs to be

done in general, for example, an express test for the coronavirus or to get a free referral to the plr . can you see a family doctor? do not delay in contacting a doctor for timely detection and treatment, as well as prevention of the spread of the virus, as well as avoiding complications of the disease, in addition, doctors will be able to better monitor the dynamics of morbidity and manifestations of the strain of the virus. oksana vygovska, an infectious disease specialist, will be in touch with us now, and she will tell you more about the clinical picture. mrs. oksana, i congratulate you, mrs. iryna . glory to ukraine. of the new

strain of micron b a5 that we need to know to our viewers well, first of all, i want to say that this is not a new stamp, yes, it is not one of the stereotypical strains of amicron, there are advantages in this, that is, why are there advantages in that for us it is not completely new or how much it is not completely new accordingly, the clinical picture does not run in a new way, yes, or, for example, the whitishness is simply due to the fact that it is a variety, there are some peculiarities of the clinical course and peculiarities of the e-e diagnosis, what exactly is the peculiarity of this strain, that since it is a new variety, the incidence of the disease has increased growth er during the last month er well, it is not

decreasing yet. that is, it means that you need to be on the lookout for respiratory symptoms and not exclude micron because we forgot about covid er and remember that covid is covid returned to pay attention to the peculiarities of the clinic, i.e. more often the development of e-e manifestations on the part of the literary tract. that is, it is a cough, if it is older people, it is possible pneumonia, that is, respiratory failure, shortness of breath at home during physical exertion, increased cough during physical exertion, a feeling of lack of air that is, these are all the eyes of ska that we are familiar with, which are traditionally characterized by the very rapid development of the asthenic syndrome, that is, weakness, gratitude, and

the desire to lie down after a cold the feeling that a person cannot quickly return to his traditional physical activity some by the way, there are such moments of depressive disorders that you need to remember remember what is this connected with, ms. oksana, you talked about this picture and if we talk about the categories of people, can we say that according to statistics, for example, this stamp of omicron b a5 is more often elderly people, as world statistics now show, or in ukraine, after all , it is people of all ages and even children, according to the statistics of the public health center amos we have patients of different age categories. mainly these are people of an active age, socially active, well

, elderly people are also sick, including children, that is, it is impossible to save from it only. it is possible, if only to reduce this symptomatology and the effect on the body thanks to vaccination alone valuable for a-a coronavirus er and there are still traditional security measures ms. oksana yes vaccination first of all if we talk in general about the picture of how the situation in our country will continue to develop war we understand that the majority of people there they will not immediately when they have any symptoms that we just talked about are similar to an acute respiratory viral infection. well, we know that people will not immediately run to the doctor or take a test. and this indicates that the virus will

spread very quickly after all what kind of picture are you drawing now , when will it happen and when should we really expect such a peak of morbidity when they will talk about procovid again? well, quite actively, well, the waves are rolling over as they were in the past, that is, we expect an increase in the incidence rate, of course with the beginning of the deterioration of weather conditions. and you see that, despite the fact that it is the middle of august, it still feels like we are already in september. i think that in about two to three weeks there will be a fairly high rise ms. oksana’s level of morbidity, is there anything you can advise our viewers on how to protect yourself from this virus, or is there nothing that can be done