Currently, 706 patients are being treated in the infectious diseases clinical hospital No. 2 in Moscow, and 377 of them have confirmed coronavirus. This was announced on Friday, January 8, by the head physician of the medical institution Svetlana Krasnova.
“There are 706 people in the hospital (including 36 in intensive care), of which 377 cases of confirmed COVID-19: 8 children, 317 adults in infectious diseases departments, 14 pregnant women, women in labor and postpartum women, 14 people in the surgical department, 24 patients in intensive care” , – she wrote on her Facebook page.
Krasnova also said that over the past day, 78 patients were admitted to the hospital, 41 of them with COVID-19, while 48 people were discharged from the medical facility, among whom 41 recovered from coronavirus.
On December 15, a large-scale vaccination against coronavirus infection began in Russia, in Moscow it started on December 5. Citizens are vaccinated with Sputnik V. It was developed by the Gamaleya Center and became the first vaccine against this virus in the world and in Russia. The final efficacy of the drug was 91.4%. For severe cases of coronavirus, the effectiveness was 100%.
The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, began at the end of December 2019. The Chinese city of Wuhan became the hotbed of infection. For several months, the disease spread to more than 210 countries of the world. On March 11, WHO declared a coronavirus pandemic.
According to the latest data, 3,332,142 cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia in 85 regions. Over the entire period, 60,457 deaths were recorded, 2,709,452 people recovered.
Up-to-date information on the situation with the coronavirus is available on the websites of stopcoronavirus.rf and access vsem.rf, as well as by the hashtag #WeVotre. Coronavirus hotline: 8 (800) 2000-112.