“Today, 16 city and eight federal hospitals provide care for patients with COVID-19 and pneumonia in St. Petersburg.

11,097 infectious beds are deployed in them, of which 2,890 beds (26%) are free, "RIA Novosti reports.

Ergashev noted that an adequate supply of coronavirus vaccine has been created in St. Petersburg - more than 160 thousand doses. 

Earlier, the head of the department of epidemiological surveillance of the department of Rospotrebnadzor in St. Petersburg, Irina Chkhindzheriya, spoke about the possibility of compulsory vaccination against coronavirus infection COVID-19 in St. Petersburg.