“This week has been marked by a significant increase in the number of hospitalizations.

Moreover, a historical maximum of a weekly hospitalization in hospitals redesigned for work with infectious patients has been set - 5785 people, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

He noted that the number of hospitalizations in the city compared with the previous week increased by 6.1%.

Lisovets stressed that the load on the stationary service is "extreme and unprecedented"

Earlier it was reported that vaccination against COVID-19 begins in St. Petersburg.

On December 9, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov announced the "red line" in the situation with the coronavirus in St. Petersburg.