Deputy Prime Minister Golikova: hospital beds for patients with COVID-19 in Russia are 82.8% occupied 
In Russia for treatment of patients infected with coronavirus, more than 300 thousand hospital beds have been deployed, with 82.8 percent of them currently occupied. The state of the bed fund was assessed by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova at a meeting of the president with members of the government, reports on Wednesday, November 10, TASS.
She also clarified that 41 regions of the country have bed occupancy above the national average. “Many regions deliberately keep a reserve of beds and insure themselves so that with an increase in hospitalization they are insured,” Golikova explained.
The Deputy Prime Minister stressed that the tension in the medical system completely depends on the behavior of Russians and commitment to preventive measures, in which vaccination against COVID-19 plays a key role.
A shortage of hospital beds for patients with COVID-19 in a number of Russian regions was reported at the end of October. So, in Sevastopol there are less than five percent of beds left. In addition, more than 90 percent of places are occupied in the Kursk, Oryol, Ulyanovsk, Sverdlovsk regions, Crimea, as well as in the Stavropol and Trans-Baikal regions.