845 people are being treated for COVID-19 in Kazan

845 people are being treated for COVID-19 in Kazan

<p> 845 people are being treated for a new coronavirus infection in Kazan, 504 of them are in hospitals, and 341 citizens are being treated at home. This was reported by Vladimir Zhavoronkov, Deputy Minister of Health of Tatarstan, at the meeting on combating the spread of coronavirus infection. </p> <p> Currently, the treatment of coronavirus patients is carried out in the Republican clinical hospital, Republican clinical infectious diseases hospital, Children's Republican clinical hospital, children's hospital № 1, hospital № 2, hospital of war veterans and Central hospital of the Vysokogorsky district. From today, the capacity of some medical facilities is increasing for the treatment of COVID-19 positive patients, the Deputy Minister said. </p> <p> Patients are assigned to different medical institutions based on the severity of their health condition, said V.Zhavoronkov. </p> <p> In Russia and particularly in Tatarstan, there is no significant increase in newly detected cases of the disease, V.Zhavoronkov added. “According to statistics of Russian Agency for Health and Consumer Rights, we record that a stable number of people get sick every day, and there is no exponential growth, - he said. We hope, that we have reached a plateau, and in the near future we will be able to reduce the incidence.” Over the past day, 80 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Tatarstan, 61 of them in Kazan. Tatarstan ranks 13^th in Russia in cases in absolute terms and 62^nd in terms of cases per 100 000 population. </p>

2020-05-18T12:21:26+0300