“On behalf of the President, we maintain bed readiness for medical care, and today we state that there are enough beds and are provided with oxygen and medicines,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
The Minister noted that 10% of those hospitalized - almost 19 thousand people - are in serious condition.
He said this at a meeting of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council under the government to combat the new coronavirus infection.
Earlier, molecular biologist and virologist Pyotr Chumakov, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the situation with the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain.