Russia has managed not to repeat the mistake of Italy and to win a few months in the fight against the spread of coronavirus due to the early closure of the borders with other countries and stop transit flows. This opinion in an interview with “Kommersant” expressed the Deputy Director of the Institute of epidemiology and Microbiology named after Pasteur Rospotrebnadzor in Saint-Petersburg Alexander Semenov located in Italy in the group of Russian military experts.
“as for Russia, I think, how fortunate that we were able to slow down, shut down at the request of the chief sanitary doctor of the border with China and transit flows, has won several months. Here in Italy, too late for at least three weeks. We saw how to do,” said Semenov.
According to him, the repetition of the Italian scenario in Russia, which was predicted by the head physician of the Moscow hospital N40 in Kommunarka Denis Protsenko in conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is “unlikely” that Russia has “a much stronger health system” and has “sufficient resources”.
“If the statistics are true, then, paradoxically, according to the ventilator we are in first place in the world. We have a very large rearmament was the last time. At least in large cities this is no problem. And from the reserves brought,” – said Semyonov.
Note that during recent inspections of the Ministry of health in Russia has totaled 33 thousand of the ventilator, while in some regions the lack of them was mentioned in the beginning of the epidemic. According to the newspaper “Project”, in the Kaluga region is a shortage of medical ventilators is 86%, in Tver – 78%, and in Voronezh, Kostroma and Rostov regions is only 50% of the required amount. Best equipped Altay, Moscow, Kalmykia and the Komi Republic.
In Italy, according to the virologist, “accumulated a number of patients that the disease began to grow exponentially. In such circumstances, the health care system is challenged, and came almost collapse.” Russian specialists deploy to Bergamo hospital to rescue the patients with coronavirus, working with patients in the hospital Pope John XXIII and disinfect houses, “where double flowers bloom coronavirus and viral infections”.
According to Semenov, in the country nobody is engaged in it seriously and centrally. “Our school anti-security is at a much higher level than in many countries. And we are happy to share this experience,” said the doctor.
the Main task of Russia – to the slowly growing number of patients and did not reach to the number of severe patients with respiratory problems exceeded the number of available medical ventilators. In this connection Semenov denounced the Russians who “are at risk, walking the dog or going to the barbecue.”
“I’d love to hold them on the intensive care unit of Bergamo hospital, and show how it can end, if time does not think suddenly. I do see what is happening in Italy, where much sway. Yesterday our specialists worked in the same boarding house for the elderly in Bergamo. Of the 120 residents of the boarding house 50 died and about 60 are infected with coronavirus – it is now the tests done. This price is for the fact that the relatives did not want to sit at home and visiting your favorite grandparents”.
Semenov stressed that much depends on the consciousness of Russians in the regime of self-isolation. “If we have in the country, more sane people will not need additional measures. If the desire to walk with the dog more than the life of a neighbor-pensioner, means, it is necessary to compel socially responsible behavior” and “tighten the screws until the quarantine,” said the medic.
the Chief sanitary doctor of Russia, head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, the TV channel “Russia 1” said that Russia in the situation with the spread of the coronavirus goes according to the optimistic scenario. She notedLa, that this was possible because in the previous two months, the country has taken “all necessary and appropriate measures”, and training is continuing.
According to the latest data, in Russia the coronavirus identified from 4731 people, of whom 3357 in Moscow. For the entire period was 43 fatalities.
