A village in the Khabarovsk Territory was quarantined due to an outbreak of COVID-19

The village of Vostretsovo in the Okhotsk district of the Khabarovsk Territory was closed for quarantine due to an increase in the number of cases of CORONAVIRUS infection. This was reported in the press service of the government of the region.

The corresponding document was signed by the Acting Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev. The decision came into force from 00:00 on June 11.

“Out of 20 confirmed cases of covid-19 in Vostretsovo, five people are over the age of 60,” Ivan Kuleshov, chief physician of the Okhotsk Central District Hospital, said, adding that another 85 people who were contacts and with symptoms were tested for infection.

According to the decree, local residents will be able to leave the village only after passing a two-week quarantine and receiving a negative PCR test result for coronavirus after ten days in the observatory.