A resident of the republic who became infected with COVID-19 in Crimea, whose disease became known yesterday, could have infected another sixty people.
Natalya Penkovskaya, head of the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor, stated this at a meeting of the headquarters to combat the spread of coronavirus infection, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“He works at Voskhod LLC, an organization that prints printed materials. From the 25th to the 28th he was in Moscow, arriving here by personal transport. On the 4th he felt sick and continued to receive treatment on his own at home. On the 8th he goes to the rural medical clinic, where he also does not say that he had been in Moscow before. He is prescribed treatment.
On the 11th, his condition worsens, he goes to the emergency department of the hospital complex in the village of Voskhod, he is questioned about pneumonia, examined and, taking into account the severity of his condition, is hospitalized in the infectious diseases department.
Taking into account the long development of the situation and the large number of contacts, in fact, today he has 15 of his contact people in the observatory. Eight of them are medical workers. 27 people - those people who were at the same time with him in the emergency room at the outpatient clinic - were also placed under medical supervision; they were not hospitalized in the observatory, but isolated at home.
And 22 people are family members of medical workers and persons who had direct contact with him. Thus, for this one case there are 64 contacts in isolation. The situation is quite difficult, and each such case entails a chain of risks,” Penkovskaya said.
In total, as of today, 32 cases of infection with coronavirus infection COVID-19 have been registered in Crimea, 12 people have already been discharged from hospitals. In Sevastopol, the number of infected people has not changed - of the six confirmed patients, four have recovered.