Sobyanin announced the absence of queues in Moscow clinics amid COVID

There are almost no queues in Moscow clinics amid the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at a meeting of the headquarters for combating COVID-19 under the government. The broadcast was conducted by the Russia 24 TV channel on VKontakte.

“So, today there are practically no queues in the outpatient department. The time from the beginning of the visit to the clinic to the discharge of medicines, including all necessary procedures, is about 40 minutes. In CT centers - about two hours. Basically, this is a technological time for providing medical care,” he said.

The head of the RDIF announced the passage of the peak of cases of "omicron" this week Society

According to Sobyanin, doctors come to Muscovites within a day, and an ambulance arrives on emergency calls in an average of 11-12 minutes.

Sobyanin also added that the number of omicron infections in Moscow has dropped by about 6% over the past week. However, he noticed that the number of hospitalizations of seriously ill patients increased by 15%.

Sobyanin called the number of new cases of COVID in Moscow prohibitive Society

Over the past day, 12,902 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Moscow, the operational headquarters reported on Telegram. 1566 people were hospitalized, 618 people are on ventilators. 85 people died. At the same time, 20,673 patients recovered, the number of recovered patients exceeded the number of new cases.

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The total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic has reached 2,524,235, and 39,602 deaths.

On the eve of the director of the Center. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg said that Omicron in Moscow accounts for 90-95% of cases of COVID-19 infection. The Moscow authorities deployed 15 thousand beds in city, federal and private hospitals. Because of the "omicron", it was necessary to deploy additional beds for children.

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