According to him, during the day in the region 29 new cases of infection were added, 16 of them in Yakutsk, the total number of cases in Yakutia reached 311 people, RIA Novosti reports.

“In Yakutsk, I want to say that out of the 16 cases identified, 7 are cases related to our republican ophthalmological hospital ... We will take all measures ... so that we repay this focus in the coming days,” he said.

At the end of April, it became known that in Yakutsk, four doctors of the ophthalmological hospital revealed COVID-19.