Taxi prices, which have increased in the pre-New Year period, will remain in the future, said Andrey Popkov, chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Taxiist Interregional Trade Union of Public Transport Workers.

Technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of the new omicron coronavirus strain have been worked out, said the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko.

The United States, within the framework of an international technical assistance project, allocated Ukraine $ 24.5 million to strengthen the borders with Russia and Belarus.

Due to the rapid spread of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, Apple continues to close its stores in the United States. Now the doors of retail outlets have closed to visitors to New York and several other American cities, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, December 28.

It is difficult to make predictions about the seasonality of coronavirus infection, at the moment there are only prerequisites. This was announced by the infectious disease doctor Evgeny Timakov.

Immunologist, Ph.D. Nikolay Kryuchkov told Moscow 24 that it is too early to consider specific types of rash as a common symptom of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus.

On December 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the high ability of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to fight the Omicron strain.

The ties that have survived since the times of the USSR play a role, this allows the CIS countries to pass through the difficult times of the pandemic better than some, says Vladimir Putin.

Foreign citizens from January 1 for illegal labor activities can be not only fined, but also expelled from Russia.

Poland is losing its position as a transit country for Russian gas, says Andrzej Szczęsnyak, an expert in the field of the fuel market and energy security.