“The Ministry of Defense is carrying out a set of preventive measures to prevent the introduction and spread of coronavirus infection.

The sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Russian Armed Forces is fully controlled, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to him, all arriving in units and military organizations are examined for symptoms of COVID-19, stocks of masks and tests have been created, 33 laboratories are operating for PCR studies of the military.

Earlier, a mobile hospital deployed by the Russian Ministry of Defense in Sukhum began admitting patients with coronavirus infection.