Overview
- Rospotrebnadzor reports more than 23,400 flu cases in the latest week, a 1.7‑fold rise, with the sharpest increases in the Far East, Siberia, the Urals and the Northwest.
- A TASS tally shows several dozen schools closed and hundreds of classes and preschool groups moved online across multiple regions, with children aged 7–14 most affected.
- In Murmansk Region, over 400 classes in more than 50 schools switched to distance learning, 1,020 infections were logged last week, and a strict mask regime was introduced in medical facilities with 182 beds ready and expansion to 292 planned.
- Health authorities say A(H3N2) remains the dominant strain nationwide, while 78.3 million people have been vaccinated against flu, covering about 53.2% of the population.
- Experts say the epidemic threshold has been exceeded by 4.9% with a peak expected in late December, and Rospotrebnadzor notes COVID‑19 cases rose 13.7% week over week to about 11,000.