Alexey Melnyk, HEAD of the Infectious Diseases Hospital of Hospital No. 25, reported an increase in the number of people infected with CORONAVIRUS in the region.
“There are more patients, in principle, and among them there are a lot of serious ones. For the first time in the entire period of the pandemic, from the very beginning, we deployed 30 beds in the intensive care unit, and 10 more in reserve,” Melnyk said.
The press service of the Ministry of HEALTH of the Novosibirsk Region said that out of 250 beds in the hospital, 220 were occupied.
Deputy Minister of Health of the Novosibirsk Region Elena Aksenova said that unvaccinated patients are in the "red zones". According to Aksenova, vaccinated people tolerate the course of the disease more easily and do not end up in intensive care.
By the morning of October 20, in the Novosibirsk region, the maximum daily increase in the number of patients for the entire pandemic was recorded - 271 people. In total, during the observation period, 67,570 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in the region. 3,232 people died.