Employees of the mayor’s office of Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region, have become massively infected with the coronavirus, said the head of the city Sergey Kuznetsov. RIA Novosti writes about it.
“We have a lot of employees who are sick, and there are a lot of contacts,” the mayor of the Russian city said on the air of the program “Morning with the Mayor” on local television.
Kuznetsov noted that officials are susceptible to infection, since they are “also people, also made of the same human material.”
As of Thursday, November 5, a total of 16,412 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in the Kemerovo region, 257 people died. Another 5271 people are under medical supervision.
Earlier, the governor of the Penza region, Ivan Belozertsev, announced that he had contracted the coronavirus. He went into self-isolation and will continue to work remotely.
In Russia, over the past 24 hours, for the first time, more than 19 thousand coronavirus infections were detected – 19,768 new cases were registered in 85 regions. The total number of infected people in the country during the epidemic reached 1,693,454. A total of 1,266,931 residents of Russia recovered, and 29,217 people died.
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