In recent weeks, the Botkin Infectious Diseases Hospital in St. Petersburg has begun to record more patients with coronavirus.
Denis Gusev, chief physician of the hospital, told reporters that almost half of patients with acute respiratory diseases have a coronavirus infection. According to him, the rise in the incidence in late February – early March was expected, but it is not as high and prolonged as it was before.
At the same time, as Denis Gusev said, earlier, patients aged 65 years and older were mainly hospitalized at the Botkin Hospital, but now elderly people over 80 years old are more often admitted to the hospital. “Among all health problems, coronavirus is in fifth or tenth place,” the doctor said. According to him, these are patients who require complex treatment.
Covid itself is now proceeding differently. This is most often just an acute respiratory disease, a lesion of the upper respiratory tract without the development of pneumonia, Gusev added.
Over the past day, 57 people with coronavirus infection have been hospitalized. At the same time, 9,735 people are on outpatient treatment with a diagnosis of COVID-19 or suspicion of it in the city.
Source: Rosbalt
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