Petersburg is necessary to prepare for a second wave of infections by the new coronavirus infection. This statement by the Governor of Petersburg Alexander Beglov made at a meeting of the Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg.
“Preparing for the second stage, second wave. Perhaps this autumn, when it begins to work schools and kindergartens, and the weather is SARS, influenza,” — said the mayor and added that there is now a large number of patients with community-acquired pneumonia, 90-95% of which is caused by a coronavirus.
in addition, the Governor announced the conversion of part of the pavilions of “Lenexpo” under the sick COVID-19 moderate — new patients will make it again for 1000 beds with supplied oxygen. Will be there and additional resuscitation equipment, a ventilator and CT scan.
Beglov added that the St. Petersburg health system is now overloaded.
“We almost reached the level, when converted to other hospitals is not because there is a current of disease,” he said, Recalling that at the moment in the Northern capital deployed 10.5 thousand beds under infectious patients.
earlier, the Director of SMRC them. Evgeny Shlyakhto Almazov has declared that Petersburg has already reached a plateau in the spread of coronavirus. In recent days the city has registered 231 new case COVID-19, and the city fell to fifth place in the list of regions with the greatest daily increase in incidence. However, the mortality rate of coronavirus in St. Petersburg, one of the most high. The city ranks second in mortality. More patients are killed only in Dagestan.
since the beginning of the pandemic in St. Petersburg who became ill on 21 506 thousand people, 11 thousand 324 recovered, 756 died.
Earlier, the “Rosbalt” wrote that in the hospital in “Lenexpo” there has been a flood.
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