Morgs are crowded in Crimea, but tourists still rushed there for the "period of non -working days"

The peninsula burns in a fire of the pandemic. The statistics of the infection go off the way: about a thousand people get sick in Crimea and Sevastopol daily, while the places in hospitals end, and the morgues are already crowded. Tough restrictions are introduced - up to the checkpoints for entry and exit, but the peninsula still remains one of the most popular tourist destinations for the duration of the weekly locaun. Locals are sure that after a non -working week, restrictive measures will not be canceled.

Only doctors are missing

For more than a week in Sevastopol, from 300 to 337 people, from 10 to 16 deaths, has been fixed with coronavirus daily coronavirus. The growth is impressive: a month ago, official statistics recorded about 150 new cases of COVID-19 per day. In neighboring Crimea, the situation is no better: over the past month, the number of infections also doubled: from 360 to 670 cases per day.

These figures become much worse if we take into account that 500,000 people live officially in Sevastopol, 1.9 million in Crimea, and 5.6 million people are registered in the neighboring Kuban and where a much larger tourist flow is going on, daily growth over the past week-250–260 sick, and the number of dead from Covid-19 will vibrate within 30-40 people per day.

The authorities of Crimea recognize the problem. The acting Minister of Health of the Republic, Konstantin Skoropsky, said that the authorities "are looking for ways to unload morgues." Only 10% of covid beds are free. According to Kommersant in the regional Ministry of Health, the load on the healthcare system over the past month increased ten times.

In Sevastopol, only 5% of the beds are free in five covid departments. This was reported by Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev. There are not enough doctors.

Sevastopol hospitals are equipped with medical staff by only 75–85%. “At the moment, we have 1191 beds, the fund is almost completely full,” Novaya Gazeta was told in the Health Department of Sevastopol. - Last week, 40 beds were opened in Inkerman, on this we plan to open another 200 beds in the city hospital No. 1. ” There is a shortage and ambulance workers. From 28 to 34 ambulances, from 330 to 440 calls per day are served daily. To a third of the total number of challenges - to patients with coronavirus. The Department of Health and the Ambulance Service Search for employees. There is also a search for doctors and the average medical staff to hospitals.

Caution, the city closes

Sevastopol was again made by a closed city for the time of a non -working week - as under the Soviet Union. On October 25, at a meeting of the operational headquarters, Governor Mikhail Podvozhaev said that checkpoints would be installed at the entrance to the city. Arriving will be checked at the railway station and bus station. To enter Sevastopol and settlements to the hotels, it will be necessary to provide three documents for a choice: a certificate of vaccination, confirmation of the transferred Covid-19 within six months or a honey detergent, confirmed by the PCR test, made no later than three days before presentation. The same documents are necessary in order to leave Sevastopol, not only for tourists, but also for the local population. Also, from October 30 to November 7, all restaurants and services of the service sector are closed.

Sevastopol had already deployed checkpoints during the first Lockdown, then the people who arrived in the city were placed for two weeks in boarding boarding houses, and on a paid basis: it cost 25–40 thousand rubles. Now they do not plan to return to this practice yet, and the boarding houses can adapt to new covid departments. “At present, there is no way to place all the contacts in the observators,” the new health department explains. “It is planned to strengthen control over compliance with self -isolation for“ contact ”with sick coronavirus.” Due to the significant increase in mortality (up to 15 people per day), the load on the forensic medical examination and on pathological departments naturally increased, but so far the morgues are working in the standard mode, they certify the Sevastopol depzrav.

Sergei Aksenov said that he did not plan to close Crimea through the Sevastopol model so far and did not see the need to fence away from the neighbors on the peninsula. In the Republic of Crimea, softer restrictions are introduced during the non -working week than in Sevastopol. In public use-cafes, cinemas, shopping centers-you can get through the QR code of vaccination, a certificate of the transferred Covid-19 or PCR test. The same system will act for settlement in the hotels. All residents of the peninsula over 65 were put on mandatory self -isolation.

Both in the Crimea and Sevastopol, the authorities call the population to mass vaccination. However, as throughout the country.

The public leader Alexander Talipov, in a conversation with the Novaya, noted that in the republic the number of vaccination points does not correspond to the demand. Because of which huge lines arise, where the social distance is not respected.

The terrifying statistics on coronavirus are the consequences of the election campaign and the holiday season, when regional officials invited tourists to the Crimea.

In the summer, numerous mass events and festivals were held. After the Djazzfest in Koktebel, the organizer of the festival Dmitry Kiselev fell ill with the coronavirus, and a little later in the hospital, the TV presenter Larisa Guzeeva was in an Alushta. And this is only celebrity. “These are the consequences of songs and dancing in the holiday season, which we will now rake,” said Alexander Talipov.

According to him, if you look at the statistics on the peninsula in general, then Crimea and Sevastopol will be in the top in terms of mortality and incidence in the country. Even in the neighboring Krasnodar Territory, with a population of more than 5 million people, four times less illness daily compared to the peninsula, where 2 million people officially live.

Talipov believes that the restrictive measures that began to introduce the authorities were late. They will no longer help stop the increase in the number of diseases daily and reduce the number of deaths. The introduction of QR codes in hotels and hotels will not stop the flow of tourists for the duration of a weekly locaun-everyone who does not want to take PCR tests and vaccinate can rent housing in the private sector. “The only way to stop further growth is to install checkpoints on the Kerch bridge and at the Simferopol airport,” Talipov says.

Blogger Alexander Gorny told the “New” that tourist flow increases by covid holidays in Crimea. Even now, planes in the Crimea are clogged to the eyeballs, and the price of tickets has risen sharply. According to him, the majority of those who come to the Crimea are tourists who want to overpower the impending Lokdown not in Moscow and the northern regions, but in the warm southern climate. “A few days ago he returned from Moscow to the Crimea, the flight was detained, and I managed to communicate with the people who fly on the peninsula,” Gorny says. “Many took advantage of coronavirus holidays, as they understand that they can last at least two to three weeks.”

Where is the support?

Travel industry and catering workers are not happy to Lokdown. The regional representative of the nationwide union of the hospitality industry (Osig) in the Crimea, the chairman of the Association of Small Hotels of Crimea (Askmok) Natalia Istanbulnikova, in a conversation with the New Gazeta, noted that the non -working week and restrictions have not yet significantly affected the occupancy of hotels. If on the morning of October 26, the numbers were booked 20% more than usual at this time of this year, then by evening the tourists began to cancel the reservation and the increase amounted to only 10%. If non -working days will last a week, but for several months, then the hotel business in the Crimea may suffer, so it is necessary to develop support measures for hoteliers as a injured industry.

“The fact is that even payments for employees in the amount of the minimum wage will not be saved - this is enough only for“ Doshirak ”with bread,” explains Istanbulnikova. - If during the first locaun there was a season ahead, which was a little encouraging, now winter is ahead, it is scary. The entrepreneur can close his object, but will lose the team. And they have to pay. Here I have seven people, that is, every month 210 thousand, and they still have to earn them. To maintain a team, you need resources, a financial pillow, and it only has large hotels. But they also have a risk of losing specialists who will quit. ”

According to Natalia Istanbulnikova, the extension of non -working days will hit small and medium -sized businesses, especially those entrepreneurs who have taken loans and rent premises. Besides,

After the first Lockdown in the industry, a personnel crisis came: many specialists have already left the catering and hotel business in protection and taxi.

Hoteliers are preparing an appeal to representatives of the authorities to develop compensation measures for hotels and catering. Due to the introduction of the QR codes in the public catering, the revenue for the day in the institutions has already fallen ten times.

Even more serious condition of the catering of Sevastopol, which completely closes during the non -working week. The head of the Union of Restaurateurs Sevastopol Denis Stueturov says that if Lokdown lasts longer than a week, then the restaurateurs will again be on the verge of ruin.

“Our financial reserves do not make it possible to cover the costs of [from the Locdown], we are in constant state of stress. When all this happens against the background of pandemia, I want the support of the state. But while we received only a list of sanctions and fines for violating restrictive measures. ”

According to Stukaturov, restaurateurs are already discussing compensation with the Department of Economic Development of Sevastopol. If the restrictions extend, they will write an appeal to the governor.

On the Crimean Front without change. Like last year, during the Lokdown of the peninsula, tourists from all over Russia are flooded. Where will the curve of infection turn after their departure? And will they be able to leave the “All -Union Health Resort” themselves healthy?