The Russian government admits that the covid-19 outbreak is getting complicated

Russia recorded a record daily deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday for the second consecutive day since the start of the pandemic, with a total of 346 deaths in the past 24 hours.

The government of Russia admitted on Wednesday 28-O that the epidemic situation in the country is complicated and that in some regions the occupancy of hospital beds for patients with covid-19 exceeds 95%.

“The situation continues to get complicated: the average daily increase in morbidity is 1%, but with the figures we have it is enough,” Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golíkova said in an online meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the government.

According to Golíkova, 19.1% of the beds for covid-19 patients across the country are unoccupied, but in 19 federated entities the occupation exceeds 90% and in five others it exceeds 95%.

“We are not talking about a second wave. As we discussed recently, there are regions that according to experts the first wave has just arrived,” said the Kremlin chief from his country residence in Novo-Ogariovo, on the outskirts of Moscow. .

Putin has ordered to allocate 10 billion rubles (about 130 million dollars) to the regions for the acquisition of personal protective equipment and for coronavirus tests.

Russia recorded a record daily deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday for the second consecutive day since the start of the pandemic, with a total of 346 deaths in the past 24 hours.

According to official statistics, 16,292 new coronavirus positives were detected last day, 3,670 of which were in Moscow, the country’s main contagious outbreak.

The Russian capital accumulates 409,022 cases of covid-19 and 6,578 deaths from this disease, 75 of which in the last 24 hours.

The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin, confirmed this 28-O that the situation in the city is still “unstable”, but has chosen not to impose stricter control measures and has limited himself to extending the current regulations for another month restrictions, until the end of November.

Despite the great rebound of the epidemic in recent weeks, in which daily infections have more than doubled, the Russian authorities have ruled out the adoption of drastic measures such as imprisonment, curfew or paralysis of the economic sectors.

With 1,563,976 cases accumulated, Russia is now the fourth country in the world by number of coronavirus positives after the United States, India and Brazil.