This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Tatyana Ruzhentsova, deputy director for clinical work of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after G. N. Gabrichevsky of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare.
“Mortality from COVID-19 is mainly associated with late seeking medical help, late initiation of proper therapy, when complications have developed and antiviral drugs are no longer effective,” she said.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova named regions with a critical situation with the incidence of coronavirus infection.
According to her, we are talking about the Kursk region, the Komi Republic, the Orenburg region, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Voronezh, Novgorod, Volgograd, Samara, Saratov, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Kirov and Amur regions.