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During the last five days in a row, more than 18,000 people were registered in Russia. new cases of infection.
The highest number of new cases is still registered in Moscow: last day 5,826 cases of infection were registered in the Russian capital and 68 people died.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, a total of 1,693,454 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in the country and 29,217 people have died.
15,567 patients were discharged from the treatment facilities on the last day. The total number of people treated and recovered in hospitals rose to 1,266,931, according to a report by operational staff.
In Russian regional hospitals, as in many European countries, there has been a significant increase in COVID-19 patients recently. Photos have been posted on social media showing people lying on stairs near the country’s medical facilities, as well as a long line of ambulances unable to take patients to hospitals.
During the culmination of the first wave of COVID-19 from March to May this year, Russia had introduced one of the strictest quarantines in the world. But last Thursday, Putin said that “we have no plans to take severe restrictive measures” or introduce a global solitary confinement.
The Russian president advocates a regional approach that provides targeted measures in the most affected cities and regions.
Other countries, including France and England, have also tried to implement such a strategy, but have subsequently decided to issue a national quarantine for an exponential increase in the number of infections.
Russia’s Rospotrebnadzor has stepped up security measures, such as mandatory masks in crowded places like public transport and elevators.
He also recommended banning late-night public events and closing restaurants and bars, but only a few regions follow this advice.
The government has announced about 11 billion. Rubles support package (119 million euros) for the country’s regions, which have already overtaken Moscow in terms of new coronavirus cases.
Russia reports much lower death rates for COVID-19 patients compared to other severely affected countries, and critics of the Kremlin accuse the government of trying to downplay the severity of the epidemiological situation.
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