MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will send army doctors to an Ural domain affected by an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday, after doctors filed a public appeal by President Vladimir Putin.
Russia has noticed new cases of coronavirus in recent weeks. On Wednesday, the authorities reported 16,202 new infections and 346 deaths, the total ever recorded.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered aid to be sent to the Kurgan region, about 1,970 kilometres east of Moscow, the ministry said in a statement through Russian news agencies.
“A team of army medical specialists will be sent to provide counseling and remedy to coronavirus patients in medical facilities in the region,” the ministry said.
Last week, fitness professionals in Kurgan asked President Vladimir Putin to send reinforcements, prompting a critical shortage of hospital space and overcrowded ambulances, in a letter posted on the local news online page ura. news.
But in Moscow, Russia’s hardest-hit region, the new ones have fallen to their lowest point since October 8, with 3760 infections registered.
The consumer’s fitness regulator, Rospotrebnadzor, said the scenario there was solid and that the number of others hospitalized by COVID-19 had stabilized at 1100-1,200 per day, The Interfax news firm reported.
Other parts of Russia are also under great strain, according to local media. Two ambulances took patients to the local fitness ministry in the Siberian city of Omsk after locating all the hospitals full, ngs55. ru, the chief minister of health, said Tuesday. Mikhail Murashko to order checks there.
In August, Russia was the first country to grant regulatory approval for a vaccine after less than two months of human testing. Large-scale trials are underway lately. Regulators approved a new vaccine before this month.
The death toll from COVID-19 in Russia was about 27,000 on Wednesday and reported 1,563,976 infections, the fourth highest number of cases in the world after the United States, India and Brazil.
(Reporting through Gleb Stolyarov, Maria Kiselyova and Maria Vasilyeva; written through Alexander Marrow; edited through Tom Balmforth and Raissa Kasolowsky)