215 infected coronavirus identified in Altay Territory

Fears that the range of detected coronavirus infections in the Altay region will increase significantly have been confirmed. As reported today, April 25, the operational headquarters of the region, the repeated study confirmed the positive results of analyses from the 51 employee of the industrial site of Korbalichinsky mine (Zminogorsk district), and in the past 24 hours, April 24, in the region registered 63 new cases SARS- CoV -2. Thus, the total number of people infected with coronavirus in the region is already 215, including 14 children. As already reported by the news agency, for the first time coronavirus was identified at the resident Barnaul, who arrived home from the Dominican Republic on March 20. Despite signs of ARVI, the woman was not put on record as arriving from abroad, and did not take tests. As a result, this woman's husband went to work for more than a week, considering himself healthy. Coronavirus was subsequently identified in those who were in contact with the couple in question. Another mass outbreak of infection occurred due to the identified disease in one of the employees of the industrial site of Korbalichin mine of JSC Siberia-Polymetalla. The day before, April 24, the first death of a patient infected with coronavirus was reported. Most of the detected cases of SARS- CoV -2 infection in the Altay region are contact with the previously ill.