Director of the European Regional Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO) Hans Klaja praised the struggle of Russia with a Pandemic COVID-19. He stated this in an interview with TASS.
Russia set the highest level of coordination of measures at all levels: political, technical, epidemiological, social. Two more critical elements were the ability to quickly increase the level of testing, really very massive, and the second is a health care system, the rapid growth of the number of hospitals ” , “said the representative of WHO.
Keleva also praised the measures of the Russian authorities to support health workers: in particular, he recalled the social insurance for the infected coronavirus or financial support to the families of the dead doctors.
At the same time, he stressed that both WHO, and different countries could do something better: for example, to strengthen the “primary level of health care system.” “Because we will not be able to win the battle in hospitals, you need to expel this struggle from hospitals,” said the representative of WHO.
March 18, Berev said that Russia needs to accelerate with the provision of vaccine data against the coronavirus “satellite V” for its speedy approval. The developers of the Russian drug sent applications for vaccine approval both in WHO and in the European Medicine Agency (EMA).