The spread of coronavirus can no longer be stopped - Russian doctors
Four new cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Russia - three in the Moscow region and one in the Tyumen region.
Izvestia reports this, citing data from Rospotrebnadzor dated March 15, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“To date, 63 cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in the Russian Federation, of which 60 are Russian citizens, two are Chinese citizens, and one is an Italian citizen,” the operational headquarters for preventing the importation and spread of a new coronavirus infection in Russia clarified.
On March 13, the headquarters announced the first case of COVID-19 infection within the country. According to the director of the Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases named after. E.I. Martsinovsky Sechenov University Alexander Lukashev, the transmission of coronavirus in Russia has become a “natural event.”
“The spread of the virus cannot be stopped; quarantine can only buy time. Now it is important that most countries realized the seriousness of the problems and began to take measures,” Lukashev noted.
Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children of the Russian National Research Medical University named after A. N.I. Pirogova Ivan Konovalov.
“If we are talking about transmission without imported cases, this means that the virus is circulating in the country. Now the most important thing is to control all contact cases,” says Konovalov.
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