As of the morning of December 17, 59 patients are being treated in the "red zones" of the Republican Multidisciplinary Medical Center (RMMC) of South Ossetia, Eleonora Dzhioeva, the chief infectious disease specialist of the Republic, told IA "RES ".
“Today 31 patients are being treated in the infectious building of the RMMC, 28 in the building of the children's hospital. There is one patient in the intensive care unit, and another patient is on non-invasive mechanical ventilation,” the doctor said.
As noted by Dzhioeva, over the past day, one patient was admitted to the "red zone", eight people were discharged with recommendations to continue treatment on an outpatient basis.
According to the doctor, the admission and triage department of the RMMC on Wednesday admitted 42 patients, no hospitalized.
“40 patients have been tested at the reception and triage center, two of them received directions for computed tomography of the chest,” said the chief infectious disease specialist.
Dzhioeva has added, that mobile teams examined two patients at home.
The Republic's chief infectious disease specialist appealed to the population to comply with all preventive measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection.