There are fears worrying numbers of health workers in Russia are becoming infected with the coronavirus amid shortage of protective gear and alleged failure by local administrators to take appropriate quarantine measures.
are becoming infected with the coronavirus amid a shortage of protective gear and alleged failure by local administrators to take appropriate quarantine measures.
“We are on the threshold simply of a collapse in health personnel,” said Andrey Konoval, who heads the independent union, Dyeistviye, which represents around 4,000 health workers across 49 Russian regions. “It’s no coincidence” Moscow has been calling up students, he said. Ira Apraksina, a doctor in the diagnostic imaging department at the War Veterans Hospital No 3, one of Moscow’s primary coronavirus hospitals, said in the first two weeks of the outbreak virtually her entire department had fallen ill. The majority have now recovered, she said, although one doctor has died. The number of new staff getting ill now has shrunk she said because so many have already had the virus.
Grave diggers wearing protective suits bury a COVID-19 victim as relatives and friends stand at a safe distance, in the special purpose for coronavirus victims section of a cemetery in Kolpino, outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 10, 2020. In the U.K., between 150 and 200 health workers are estimated to have died when the country has recorded a total 31,000 coronavirus deaths. As thethis week, when Italy reported that 100 medical workers had died, the country’s death toll had just surpassed 18,200.
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