'We have a total of about 4,000 severe cases,' Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Wednesday.
Russia has rapidly become a new hotspot for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, with the country recording more than 10,000 new infections per day for four days in a row.
As of Wednesday morning, Russia had the seventh-highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world, according to a tracker updated by Johns Hopkins University. Government health officials reported 10,559 new cases, bringing the total to 165,929. More than 1,500 people have already died from COVID-19 in Russia.
"There are 1,200 to 1,500 people in intensive care beds across the country. Everyone is treated in cooperation with the federal consulting center, and we have created a system, in which we see all patients , and in which bed they stay," Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Wednesday, Russia's Tass news agency reported.
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