In Moscow, the planned hospitalization of children due to COVID-19 was stopped

In Moscow, planned hospitalization in children's hospitals is stopped for three weeks, the Department of HEALTH reports. The reason is the increase in the incidence among children: the number of children with COVID-19 has increased 14 times in the capital in two weeks. The number of hospitalizations of children per day has increased tenfold over the same time.

“In Moscow, there is an unprecedented increase in the incidence of CORONAVIRUS among children ... it is important that about half of the children hospitalized with COVID-19 are transfers from other hospitals where they underwent planned treatment for other diseases,” the department said.

Emergency assistance will be provided in full. Also, the ban will not affect children with oncological and hematological diseases who need antitumor treatment.

The restriction does not apply to adult polyclinics, but the Department of Health nevertheless recommended that Muscovites postpone planned visits to the polyclinic for two to three weeks "due to the increased workload on the outpatient link." “Taking into account the peculiarities of the new omicron strain, which now dominates the incidence structure, the main burden falls on the outpatient link. It is the clinic that provides treatment for more than 90% of patients with COVID-19 and SARS,” the report says.