“Deliveries to the regions are carried out through two channels,” RIA Novosti quotes Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

He specified that about 500 ventilators directly contracted were delivered to the regions.

Manturov added that more than 1,000 ventilation devices were sent to the regions as part of the execution of government contracts funded through the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Earlier it became known that Russia will begin exporting mechanical ventilation devices after it provides supplies for domestic needs.