COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Petersburg, Russia: Combining population-based serological study and surveillance data.
Anton BarchukDmitriy SkougarevskiyAlexei KouprianovDaniil ShirokovOlga DudkinaRustam Tursun-ZadeMariia V SergeevaVarvara TychkovaAndrey B KomissarovAlena ZheltukhinaDmitry LioznovArtur IsaevEkaterina PomerantsevaSvetlana ZhikrivetskayaYana SofronovaKonstantin BlagodatskikhKirill TitaevLubov BarabanovaDaria DanilenkoPublished in: PloS one (2022)
Approximately one year after the COVID-19 pandemic about 45% of St. Petersburg, Russia residents contracted the SARS-CoV-2 infection. Combined with vaccination uptake of about 10% it was enough to slow the pandemic at the present level of all mitigation measures until the Delta VOC started to spread. Combination of several surveillance tools provides a comprehensive pandemic picture.