“At the very beginning of the epidemic, and under conditions of well-known forced restrictions, Russian companies took a responsible, flexible approach and deployed, rather quickly, the production of personal protective equipment, in some cases reprofiled their production, and somewhere it was set up practically from scratch” - TASS quoted Putin as saying.
He noted that "we managed to avoid critical interruptions in the supply of doctors, nurses and paramedics, ambulance services."
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Health reported that there is no shortage of personal protective equipment in the regional medical organizations.