Moscow Mayor Sobyanin: the load of coronavirus hospitals in the city was reduced by a thousand places
for the treatment of those infected with the coronavirus. His words on Wednesday, November 17, are quoted by AGN “Moskva”.
In the capital, over the past three days, a thousand hospital beds have been vacated, the situation with the incidence of COVID-19 is improving, the mayor said. On November 15, Sobyanin reported that the number of detected cases of infection in Moscow has been falling for the second week. According to him, over the past week it fell by 23 percent, and hospitalizations decreased by 19 percent.
As of November 17, over the past day, 36,626 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia, of which 2,966 were in Moscow. The total number of infections in the country for all the time reached 9,182,538. Over the past 24 hours, a new anti-record for the number of deaths was recorded in the country – 1,247 deaths of patients with COVID-19 were detected for the first time.