The situation with the presence of specialized beds for patients with coronavirus in the country has been recorded, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said on December 1 at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Despite the tense situation, we have not changed for a week the number of beds that we open for COVID – this is 276 thousand. The week before, we observed a constant growth. Now the situation seems to be fixed, ”the Deputy Prime Minister stressed.
The increase in the number of vacated beds, in her opinion, is also associated with the possibility of opening new specialized infectious diseases hospitals, and with the implementation of the order to allocate financial resources for the purchase of drugs for outpatient medical care.
In addition, Golikova said that it is possible to start mass vaccination against coronavirus in Russia in December, and that an assessment of priority population groups, including doctors and teachers, is underway.
The President ordered vaccinations to begin next week. According to Putin, in the coming days, the number of produced doses of the domestic vaccine against COVID-19 will reach 2 million.
In Russia, over the past day, 25,345 new cases of coronavirus were detected per day, most of all in Moscow (5191), St. Petersburg (3684) and Moscow region (1148). Over the past day, 589 people have died from the coronavirus, 26,882 patients have recovered. In total, 2,347,401 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the country.
Earlier, experts noted a gradual stabilization of the situation with the spread of infection in the Russian Federation. So, on the eve, Antonina Ploskireva, Deputy Director for Clinical Work of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, reported that there was a trend in Russia to stabilize the situation with coronavirus, but it should be borne in mind that COVID-19 is a new infection and all the features of the course of the epidemiological process have not yet been studied.
Also on this day, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, stated that the growth in the incidence of COVID-19 in Russia has slowed down. According to her, the epidemiological situation in the country correlates with the measures taken.
All relevant information on the situation with the coronavirus is available on the websites of stopcoronavirus.rf and accessvsem.rf, as well as by the hashtag #WeV Together. Coronavirus hotline: 8 (800) 2000-112.
