All those arriving from abroad will be tested for coronavirus in Bashkiria

In Bashkiria, all people arriving from abroad will be tested free of charge for COVID-19, Health Minister Maxim Zabelin said at a briefing on March 23. These are mainly passengers of air transport, the official noted. Several new laboratories have begun operating in the region and have received permission to work with the new virus. These are laboratories of the Clinical Hospital, Center-AIDS, City Clinical Hospital No. 22 in Ufa, in the hospitals of Sterlitamak and Neftekamsk.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, in Russia, 71 people have become infected with the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, all new cases have been reported in Moscow. All of these people in the past two weeks have visited countries with coronavirus infection. The total number of sick Russians has reached 438. To date, 17 patients have recovered; there are no fatal outcomes. Moscow is the leader in terms of the number of cases, the Moscow region is in second place, and St. Petersburg is in third. There are cases in 48 regions of the country.

The Russian Government today allocated 7.5 billion rubles for the purchase of at least 5.7 thousand ventilation devices.