“Russia is very early adopted restrictive measures and closed the border with China. We believed that the main threat to go out, and, as you know, we have a long time there was no importation, until February 29, a single Russian citizen has not had a diagnosis of novel coronavirus infection,” – said Golikova in the First channel, answering the question of how Russia has managed to achieve low mortality rate from coronavirus.
Golikova said that January and February were used for the preparation of medical institutions for medical aid in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection. The government, she said, was a very long discussion about how Russia should act in this situation and what first steps she should take.
“And these measures – capacity test, the simplification of the registration procedure of test systems, including imported imported into the territory of the Russian Federation, resolution no registration to use this test system in the case that they are of a disposable nature, there are a lot of nuances,” she said.
the speaker also commented on the statements about the low credibility of the tests. “But I have to say that we should not neglect all the opportunities, and it gave us the opportunity to very seriously increase the detection rate,” he added. In Russia for a short period of time we developed and started to produce several different test systems using different methods of analysis, including, and precision.
