“Five days ago, we had about 13 thousand (beds for the treatment of patients with coronavirus), and in a few days we“ ate ”everything to zero.
During this period, 3 thousand more beds were increased, and almost every day 200-300 beds are "eaten".
In two days, the capacity of a hospital like Kommunarka is “eaten up”, ”RIA Novosti quoted Sobyanin as saying.
He added that if this dynamics of hospitalizations continues, the city authorities will be forced to increasingly remove hospitals from normal circulation and throw them into the fight against COVID-19.
Earlier, Sobyanin said that Muscovites infected with coronavirus do not carry the Wuhan strain, but a new mutation of the coronavirus.