Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered to temporarily reduce official business trips and vacations outside the country in the army and navy. In addition, he demanded to ensure the planned rates of re-vaccination of personnel in accordance with the approved schedules.
Additional measures to protect soldiers and officers, according to the minister, have been taken in connection with the emergence of a new "omicron"- a strain of coronavirus. In order to protect cadets, students and pupils returning from vacations and vacations from it as much as possible, Shoigu instructed the heads of educational organizations of the Ministry of Defense to ensure strict control of medical examination of young people with rapid testing and isolation mode.
"For this period," the head of the Russian military department said, "the deputy defense ministers, the commanders-in-chief of the Armed Forces, the commanders of the military districts, the Northern Fleet, the branches of the armed forces should strengthen the medical service of universities and pre-university educational organizations with additional medical personnel of military districts, the Northern Fleet." In addition, in the course of daily activities and mass events, it is ordered to strictly observe the established restrictions.
Another instruction from Shoigu is addressed to the Main Military Medical Directorate. The Central Board needs to maintain at the required level a stock of rapid tests, medical equipment, personal protective equipment and a reserve of the bed fund in case of deterioration of the epidemic situation, including in the subjects of the Russian Federation, that is, among the civilian population.
"We will continue to provide assistance and support where it is required by oxygen, and by the bed fund, and, of course, by our doctors - as it was last year," the minister said at a meeting on Tuesday. At the same time, he noted that last year the number of COVID-19 cases in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation decreased. And all measures to combat covid in the army and navy were carried out in full.
Yuri Gavrilov
