Stock Photo - RUSSIA, ST PETERSBURG - DECEMBER 11, 2023: Medical workers attend move a COVID-19 ward patient on a gurney at St George City Hospital. According to Irina Katayeva, Head of Epidemiological Surveillance at the St Petersburg City Office of Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Consumer Protection and Welfare Supervision), coronavirus rates have grown by 47% in the last week against 42% for flu and ARVI. Peter Kovalev/TASS.

Stock Photo: RUSSIA, ST PETERSBURG - DECEMBER 11, 2023: Medical workers attend move a COVID-19 ward patient on a gurney at St George City Hospital.