“Among the 16 newly detected cases of COVID-19, seven employees and one patient of the Korsakov Central District Hospital. The institution is quarantined until the results of an epidemiological investigation are received, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to him, all the medical staff and patients of the hospital passed tests for coronavirus infection.
Experts have identified contact persons, anti-epidemic measures are being carried out.
The hospital organized sanitization. During quarantine, patients will be referred to medical facilities in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Aniva.
Earlier, a nurse with confirmed coronaviruso died in a Penza hospital.