A coronavirus outbreak occurred in a Simferopol mental hospital
An outbreak of Covid-1 occurred on the territory of psychiatric hospital No. 19 in Simferopol.
The head of the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor, Natalya Penkovskaya, announced this at a meeting of the Republic’s Operational Headquarters, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the authorities, a total of 81 infected people have been registered at the medical facility. At the same time, almost half of the patients are medical workers. A 60-bed Covid hospital was set up on the hospital grounds. Of the total number of infected people, 56 people do not have clinical manifestations of the disease. It is noteworthy that despite the coronavirus pandemic, people were admitted to the dispensary without requiring a certificate of absence of infection.
In total, as of today, 8804 cases of infection with a new type of coronavirus have been registered in Crimea. Of these, 4998 people recovered and 123 people died.
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