“Children, as well as patients with oncological, oncohematological diseases, patients in need of renal replacement therapy, during the specified period, planned medical care should be provided in full,” RIA Novosti reports.

It is noted that when the situation with the coronavirus stabilizes, planned assistance will be resumed in full.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the government to do everything possible so that the work of medical institutions to provide planned care to children does not stop.

Virologist, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Cell Proliferation, Institute of Molecular Biology named after V.I.

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Engelhardt Pyotr Chumakov commented on the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.