“Currently, there are 261 patients in the Ezhvinsk City Hospital. Of these, 47 patients have coronavirus infection of mainly mild or moderate severity, five people are in the intensive care unit, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Berezin said that doctors are taking measures to prevent the further spread of the virus.

“Infected patients are allocated in separate isolation wards, everyone is prescribed the necessary treatment. The remaining patients of the hospital are given preventive treatment, ”said the head of the regional Ministry of Health.

Earlier it was reported that the number of people infected with coronavirus in the Ezhvinsky hospital in Komi increased to 55.