In the Astrakhan boarding school for aged and invalids has been a spate COVID-19

In Astrakhan coronavirus COVID-19 has infected more than 40 residents and staff of the orphanage. For the first time about a disease outbreak in a home for the elderly and disabled (240 players) found out on may 18 when he got tested positive for the coronavirus 71-the summer pensioner.

“From 18 to 22 may for treatment in the hospitals focused 30 residents and 13 employees”, — told RIA Novosti the administration of the Governor of the region. All of them diagnosed with coronavirus infection.

he Died one of the patients born in 1949 with community-acquired bilateral polysegmental pneumonia.

the Governor of the Astrakhan region region Igor Babushkin demanded from Prosecutor’s office to find out how the infection could get into the closed facility. The perpetrators should be punished, the Governor said, and the results of the investigation become known to the public.