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GENEVA, 28 APR – RIA Novosti. The Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Tkachev has been sent to the head of Ekaterinburg Alexander Wysokinska caution due to mass infection with coronavirus doctors and patients in urban hospitals, according to the website of the office of the Prosecutor General for the Urals Federal district.

Earlier, the head of the regional Rospotrebnadzor Dmitry Kozlovsky reported positive tests for coronavirus in 69 patients and nine medical personnel of hospital No. 1, Ekaterinburg, later envoy in the Urals Federal district, Nikolai Tsukanov said that the number of infected has risen to 114. According to the Governor of the Sverdlovsk region, on April 22 confirmed cases COVID-19 also identified from medical personnel and patients in the Ekaterinburg hospitals №40, №20, №14 and in the “New hospital.”

As reported in the office of the Prosecutor General for the district, the mode of increased readiness in the Sverdlovsk region was introduced on March 18, accordingly, local authorities were required to ensure the necessary preventive measures.

“Given that the failure of the administration of municipal formation of measures to strengthen control in this area may entail the violation of labour rights of health workers and the rights of citizens to protection of health, the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Tkachev has written to the head of Ekaterinburg Alexander Wysokinska the warning about the inadmissibility of violation of the legislation on health care and sanitary-epidemiological welfare of population”, – stated in the message.

According on 28 April, in the Sverdlovsk region was 539 cases of infection with novel coronavirus infection, including 85 – in recent days.

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