The most alarming symptom of coronavirus is shortness of breath, said the doctor immunologist-allergist Vladimir Bolibok “Lente.ru” on November 7.
He noted that it is necessary to count the breathing rate at rest, because if a person has a high body temperature, it basically becomes harder for him to breathe. For a healthy adult, the respiratory rate is 16-20 breaths per minute, if it becomes more frequent, this means that respiratory failure develops.
According to Bolibok, shortness of breath in combination with tachycardia is dangerous. “If a person without a fever has a rapid heart rate and shortness of breath, this suggests that you need to sound the alarm, call a doctor, do CT [компьютерную томографию] lungs, ”he added.
Over the past 24 hours, 20 396 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Russia, 364 people died, 16 803 patients recovered.
In total, as of November 7, 1,753,836 cases of coronavirus were detected in 85 regions in Russia, 30,251 patients died, 1,312,927 people recovered.
A day earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, recommended that the residents of the Russian Federation spend the upcoming New Year holidays at home amid the spread of coronavirus. She recalled that when crossing the border there is a risk of being quarantined in another country.
According to her, most often COVID-19 is infected in public transport, since it is difficult to maintain social distance there.
The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, began at the end of December last year. The Chinese city of Wuhan became the hotbed of infection. For several months, the disease has spread to more than 210 countries of the world. On March 11, WHO declared a coronavirus pandemic.
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.