The daily increase in the number of people who have recovered after being infected with coronavirus in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has been higher for a week than the daily number of those infected. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergey Shoigu, reported this to the President of the country Vladimir Putin from the National Defense Management Center via video link.
"I want to say that since May 8, for a week now, more people have been getting better every day than they are getting sick. This is a serious success, and I hope it will lead or has already led to the fact that the number of infected people in the Armed Forces is getting smaller every day," he said.
"Special forces and means of the Armed Forces have been formed to combat the spread of the coronavirus in the regions of our country. They are ready to be used according to your decision, " he also said.
In addition, Sergey Shoigu reported on the completion of the construction of 16 medical centers for patients with the coronavirus with 1.6 thousand beds.
"On your instructions, 16 multifunctional medical centers have been built on the funds of military hospitals in 15 regions from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, including the South of the country, including Crimea. The centers' capabilities will allow them to simultaneously provide medical care to 1.6 thousand patients with COVID-19 - both military personnel and civilians," he said.
According to the Minister, the construction of eight centers was completed on April 30, and today the same number of hospitals is being introduced: in Kaliningrad, Pushkin, Sevastopol, Rostov-on-don, Omsk, Ulan-Ude, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk.
"All centers are equipped with the latest medical equipment. This allows us to provide medical care in the necessary volume and at a high technological level, " the head of the Defense Department added.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 4.4 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the world, and more than 300 thousand died. In Russia, according to the Federal operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, 262,843 cases of infection were registered, 58,226 people recovered, and 2,418 died.
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