The department said that “the bed capacity for patients with COVID-19 will expand in the near future.
On Tuesday, it is planned to open the 8th pavilion "Lenexpo" (474 beds for patients with moderate severity) ".
"The decision of the Ministry of Health of Russia to deploy additional beds in a number of federal institutions is expected," the committee said in a statement on the VKontakte social network.
Earlier it was reported that, according to the Interdepartmental City Coordination Council for Counteracting the Spread of Coronavirus in St. Petersburg, the number of available beds for patients with coronavirus infection COVID-19 as of December 20 is 27.
The city health committee later noted that "the information spread by a number of news agencies about the 27 vacant beds left in the city for coronavirus patients reflects the number of beds for adult patients in the early morning and does not take into account further discharge."
According to the data of the headquarters as of December 20, a total of 200,813 cases of coronavirus were detected in St. Petersburg, 117,132 people recovered, 6840 patients with COVID-19 died.
Sergei Kolesnikov, deputy of the State Duma of the III-V convocations, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russia, in an interview with FAN, recalled the peculiarities of the coronavirus.