As Moscow’s Covid-19 numbers rise, city’s top virus hospital head says facility now has record number of patients on ventilators

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The head of Moscow’s top coronavirus hospital has revealed that his facility is being hit harder than ever before, with the number of patients on ventilators now beating the record for any other time during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Speaking to RT on Tuesday, Denis Protsenko of the Kommunarka Hospital revealed that out of 1,447 coronavirus patients treated at the institution 407 are in the intensive care unit, and 110 are connected to a ventilator. Protsenko became a nationwide household name in 2020 due to his role at the forefront of the country’s battle against Covid-19.

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