In Indonesia the Russian seafarer refused medical care because of COVID 19

MOSCOW, 18 Jul – RIA Novosti. The Russian professional Union of sailors of the Russian Federation appealed to the foreign Ministry and Rosmorrechflot to provide assistance to the Russian ship-WL Palekh who was denied medical care in coordination and rescue centre Indonesia because of the situation with COVID-19, reported RIA Novosti Deputy head of seafarers Union of Russia Igor Kovalchuk.

the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, the world recorded nearly 2.1 million cases of infection, almost 140 thousand people died.

“We wrote the hour of the situational crisis center of the foreign Ministry and Rosmorrechflot to provide assistance to the Russian sailor from the ship WL Palekh with a suspected stroke, which in the Maritime coordination and rescue centre in Indonesia refused to evacuate because of the situation with https://ria.ru/category_-koronavirus-covid-19” – said Igor Kovalchuk.

As said Kovalchuk, the ship WL Palekh sailing under the flag of Malta, it operates the company INOK.

Current data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.