To a minimum: Muscovites were asked to limit contacts

The operational headquarters of Moscow to monitor the situation with coronavirus called on citizens to minimize contacts and wear masks in public places. They noticed that the development of the situation with COVID-19 will also depend on the townspeople themselves. The headquarters also said that over the past week the number of daily hospitalizations with coronavirus has increased by a third. A number of 42 persons with confirmed infections of the coronavirus in the Urals, Perm and Kemerovo regions were hospitalized. This number more than doubled over the previous week. The region of Kemerovo in southwestern Siberia confirmed its first case on April 9. The patient has already been discharged from hospital, but authorities still warn that residents may have been exposed to the virus. The authorities in Perm will also use children's masks if the epidemic occurs in the city. The rise in the number of people with coronavirus has led to a rise in the number of people hospitalized with the disease. The federal center for epidemiology and prevention declared a "serious situation" in February. The crisis peaked in March. Health authorities fear that this month's outbreak, which has been blamed on a single dairy farm in one of the Urals, could spread to other regions of Russia. By Evgeny Kuzmin, Milos Petrakov, Ruslan Ostashko, Anna Tsvetkova from erotikchat.