During a day In South Ossetia, 95 people have been tested for COVID-19, of which 21 tests showed a positive result, the republic's chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva told IA "Res" on Wednesday.
"Another 21 citizens have been laboratory-confirmed with coronavirus, since the day the restrictions on the border with the Russian Federation were lifted (September 15) - 83", she said.
According to Kochieva, over the entire period of the pandemic on the morning of October 14, 173 cases of coronavirus were registered.
"30 people, who have been confirmed with viral pneumonia, undergo treatment in the isolation ward of the RMMC, in the" red zone ", the rest are treated on an outpatient basis," she said.
Since April of this year, more than 5.7 thousand tests for COVID-19 have been carried out in the laboratory of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee.
The chief sanitary doctor strongly recommends that organizations to observe the mask regime, strengthen control over the implementation of anti-epidemic measures related to the spread of a new coronavirus infection in the Republic.
According to epidemiologists, infected with COVID-19 begins to infect others even before the onset of symptoms, with an incubation period of 1-3 days before the onset of symptoms and another 7 days after the onset of symptoms. At this time, he most intensively "shares" coronavirus.
