MOSCOW, Jan 20 Moscow has 50% free beds for patients with COVID-19 , the proportion of hospitalized does not exceed 10% of the number of cases, Anastasia Rakova, the deputy mayor of the capital for social development, the head of the operational headquarters for controlling and monitoring the situation with coronavirus in Moscow, told reporters. «As we expected, due to the spread of the omicron strain in Moscow, a significant increase in the incidence of COVID-19 continues.Over the past week, the number of new cases has more than doubled, over the past two weeks — 2.7 times.Given the properties of the new version of the virus, its contagiousness, the upward trend in incidence is Despite this, the number of hospitalizations increased by only 10.5% over the week, and the proportion of hospitalized patients from the number of cases identified over the past four days remains stable and does not exceed 10%,» Rakova said. She said that the authorities are monitoring the development of the situation and are preparing for different scenarios. «Today, the city retains a sufficient amount of stationary capacity — out of a deployed fund of almost 14,000 beds, only 50% are occupied,» Rakova said. >10:47The spread of coronavirusThe doctor explained in detail what to do at the first sign of «omicron»
