“We predicted today that if we rolled three or four weeks ago, we thought that in mid-May we would have such a huge peak in the incidence and hospitalization of seriously ill patients that our system simply could not cope,” he said.
According to him, it was a huge stress, "foreseeing such a future", to calculate it and cook.
“This was a terrible forecast ... And the fact that it did not come true is a merit, first of all, of Muscovites, who very responsibly approached the requirements that exist in the city,” the mayor added.
Sobyanin noted that as a result, "this terrible scenario has not yet taken place."
“No humanitarian catastrophe, as we see in a number of European and American cities, has happened. This, perhaps, is the most important result of the work that we carried out the previous weeks and months, ”he said.
Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that the growth of the spread of coronavirus in Russia has stopped.
At the end of April, the Kremlin noted that Russia managed to avoid the catastrophic scenario with the spread of COVID-19.