“Evgenia Sergeevna Zharnovnikova leaves the post of Minister of Health of the Amur Region at will. Starting Monday, Svetlana Leontyeva (formerly the First Deputy Minister of Health of the region) becomes the acting minister, ”RIA Novosti reports from the regional government.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov on April 22 criticized the authorities of the Amur Region, the Altai and Tuva republics, who do not submit applications for the supply of personal protective equipment to combat coronavirus.

Earlier, Doctor of Biological Sciences, virologist Alexei Agranovsky assessed the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.