Photo: Kirill Zykov / AGN “Moscow”
Due to the growing spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus, a reserve of beds in hospitals for patients with COVID-19 should be left, said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. He gave such advice to the heads of other Russian regions at a meeting of the presidium of the government’s coordinating council on the fight against coronavirus. Broadcast led TV channel “Russia 24”.
“I would recommend to colleagues from other subjects not to completely withdraw the bed fund, leaving a“ hot reserve ”, taking into account what we see,” said the mayor of the capital. He connects his fears with the fact that the omicron has a higher incidence rate than previous mutations of the coronavirus.
According to Sobyanin, in Moscow, the bed stock is 46%.
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The mayor called the current epidemiological situation in the capital “calm” and pointed to a significant decrease in the number of cases and hospitalized. According to him, the incidence rate in comparison with the previous peak has decreased by two-thirds, and the number of hospitalizations in the city has decreased by half.
According to statistics that leads headquarters, over the past day in Moscow, 1,906 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected, 795 people were hospitalized, 80 patients with COVID-19 died. The total number of infected exceeded 2 million, 36 thousand people died.
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