Hunting Season Makes Social Distancing Difficult in Russian Native Village (В Хангаласском районе выявили 4 новых случая заражения коронавирусом)

“Over the past 24 hours, 4 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in the Khangalassky district . Over the entire period, COVID-19 was diagnosed in 8 people, according to the operational headquarters of the republic. New cases of coronavirus in the Khangalassky district are associated with an ophthalmic hospital. After the coronavirus was discovered in the clinic, a resident of the Khangalassky district, who had previously been treated in this clinic, was placed in the observatory….The headquarters has established over 100 contacts. Of these, 93 people were in contact with the first cases, 9 people - with a patient in an ophthalmological hospital….As the head of the district noted, among the contact persons there are also those who met with a resident of the city of Yakutsk, who later confirmed COVID-19. Despite the order of Rospotrebnadzor to observe the regime of self-isolation, the townspeople went to his relatives in the village of Ulakhan-An of the Khangalassky region for hunting, after which he returned to the capital of the republic. Here he was informed of the positive results of the analysis. Today, the local resident, with whom the sick man was hunting, is placed in the observatory, the remaining 4 people are on self-isolation at the place of residence.” #IndigenousStories

May 8, 2020

ИА SakhaNews

Arina Melkozernova

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