By Maria Tsvetkova
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow hospitals have been told to drop a lot of beds for COVID-19 patients in reaction to a sharp acceleration in the number of cases, 4 medical resources told Reuters, while the city mayor suggested the elderly stay home.
Dozens of hospitals in the Russian capital were designated as special centers for coronavirus when the pandemic struck in March, but resumed treatment of other patients as it decreased during the summer. Now, some are returning to COVID mode or partially reopening for COVID, according to the report. Sources.
“This is a very important wave,” a doctor at Kommunarka Hospital, one of Moscow’s leading coronavirus centers, told Reuters.
After the largest number of coronavirus patients since the outbreak began were admitted to the hospital on Thursday, it operates at 120% of its overall capacity, the source said.
In Russia, authorities reported 7,212 new infections on Friday, bringing the national total to 1,136,048, the fourth highest in the world in the United States, India and Brazil. .
Russia lifted many of its blockade restrictions in June and many shops, businesses and public transport in the capital of more than 12. 5 million people operate largely normally.
On Friday, however, Mayor Sergei Sobianin warned that the heads of all of the city’s businesses are shifting as many staff imaginable to paintings from the house starting Monday.
FINES WITHOUT MASKS
TsUM, Moscow’s luxury store, has been fined 1 million rubles ($13,000) for forcing its visitors to wear masks, the organization of the city’s coronavirus runners said.
It said raids were underway to verify the mandatory use of the mask at points of sale and more than 15,000 fines had been issued.
Sobyanin begged anyone with chronic fitness disorders or over 65 to stay home in an emergency. Any Guests who are of retirement age deserve to paint from home or take a vacation, he said.
Another key Moscow clinic for the coronavirus, the 52. 98% complete hospital on Thursday night, one of its workers told Reuters, and there were no loose extensive care beds.
The hospital has recently reopened one of its sections for patients without coronavirus, but has been ordered to resume coronavirus treatment absolutely until Monday.
The increase in Moscow has intensified since Russia reopened schools on 1 September. The number of new infections has more than doubled since the end of August.
At least two clinics in Moscow, Inosemtsev Hospital and Hospital Number 50, are returning to treat coronavirus patients, 3 sources told Reuters.
“We were ordered to reopen for the coronavirus this weekend,” said a doctor of one of them. However, he said patients would still be treated there.
Both hospitals will offer more than 500 beds for coronavirus patients, according to an order from the Moscow Department of Health notified through Reuters.
Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said the new appeal for the entire capital was fulfilled using “reserve capabilities” and services that are not commonly used to treat patients.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not aim to re-impose serious restrictions on the lockout, but suggested others “be much more careful and take care of you and your loved ones. “
The National Working Group on Coronavirus said 108 more people had died in Russia in the last 24 hours, bringing the official number of coronavirus deaths to 20056. Russia has the 12th number of deaths in the world, according to official figures.
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(Additional report via Polina Nikolskaya, Anton Zverev, Gleb Stolyarov, Anton Kolodyazhnyy, Tom Balmforth, Vladimir Soldatkin and Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber; edited through Mark Trevelyan / Mark Heinrich)