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GOOD PROTECTED: A doctor in an ambulance is waiting to take a patient to a hospital in Khimki, outside Moscow. Photo: TATYANA MAKEYEVA / Reuters
The pressure on hospitals in the Moscow area is intense, and ambulances stand in long lines.
An ambulance driver told Reuters news agency that he had to wait 15 hours to deliver a patient.
Moscow is the epicenter of the crown outbreak in Russia, where 13,584 infected have been reported so far.
While President Vladimir Putin’s health, according to his spokesman, is “excellent,” more and more Russians are falling ill. The doubling time for the number of deaths is now five days. Russia has a total of “only” 106 deaths so far, according to VG’s summary, but the events are worrying.
– There is a large influx of patients. We see Moscow hospitals working extremely intensely, in heroic emergency mode, says Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to Russian news agencies.
– The situation in Moscow and Saint Petersburg is quite tense because the number of sick people is growing.
AMBULANCE Queue: On Saturday, there was a long line of ambulances to take patients to a hospital in Khimki, outside Moscow. Photo: TATYANA MAKEYEVA / Reuters
Strict measures
Putin’s spokesman says it will take “a couple of weeks” at best before the crown crisis gets worse in Russia.
– When does it start to flatten out? No one will give the exact time. In the coming weeks, we will probably see if we are near the top, or when we reach the top.
That is why Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobjanin has now taken strict measures to prevent infection. Moscow’s entry and exit roads are controlled, and only the necessary traffic will pass. There are now 8,800 viruses registered in the capital alone.
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Digital access cards to Moscow
A digital access card scheme is also being created for those who have the right to move around Moscow, Izvestija reports. No matter what type of transportation people use, they must have this access card.
But on Friday, before these control measures were implemented, 730,000 cars must have left the city of Moscow, with courses for popular huts, “datchaer”, in the field. It is suggested that this could be around 1.2–1.3 million people who left the capital, to areas where the health system is not as good as in Moscow and where they do not have the capacity to care for many sick mosquitoes, Reuters reports.
According to Mayor Sobjanin, 18,000 Russians are now screened daily for the coronavirus, Moskovsky Komsomolets writes.
