"When China made the first announcements, Covid was already in Moscow"

The head of the Moscow Information Technology Department said that the first sick people appeared in the city back in January

Eduard Lysenko, head of the Moscow Information Technology Department, said in an interview with Khabra that coronavirus infection appeared in Moscow in the middle-end of January. The first to say the statement by Lysenko was the attention of the journalist of Echo of Moscow, Alexander Plyushchev.

During the interview, Lysenko said that due to the coronavirus epidemic, the department’s employees have been working around the clock since the spread of Covid-19 in Moscow in the middle-end of January.

“The team works 24 to 7 from the moment we all started. This means about mid -January. I don’t know who noticed, when Kovid came to Moscow, but in reality it was ... the middle-car of January. When China made the first ads there, something else. In fact, there was already Covid here, ”said Lysenko.

Update. The press service of the Moscow Information Technology Department told Medusa that Eduard Lysenko said in an interview with Khabra that "in mid-January, the study of various technical solutions began to help Moscow cope with the possible spread of coronavirus." The press service noted that "the first official case of coronavirus infection in Moscow was recorded in early March."

Officially, the first Russian with Koronavirus Rospotrebnadzor reported on March 2. He was a man who returned to Moscow from Italy on February 23. Already on March 6, the Moscow authorities said that this man had recovered.

On May 7, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the real number of coronavirus infected with the official data. According to him, about 300 thousand people, or 2-2.5% of the city’s inhabitants are infected in Moscow. At that time, it was officially reported that the Covid-19 was identified in more than 92 thousand people in Moscow.

Since May 15, Moscow is carried out in Moscow on antibodies to coronavirus. By May 23, 50 thousand people were handed over to the tests, 12.5% ​​of them were identified by the antibodies of Immunoglobulin G. By June 1, according to the vice-mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakakova, about 200-250 thousand people passed tests for antibodies. Rakova did not specify the percentage of the examined people discovered antibodies.

As of June 2, coronavirus in Russiawas revealed in 423,741 people, of which 5037 people died, another 186,985 people recovered. In Moscow, Covid-19 was diagnosed in 185 374 people, of which 2624 people died, another 88269 people recovered.

Alexander Baklanov