Ervin Ngapet, a French volleyball player of Kazan “Zenith”, has been undergoing treatment for coronavirus at the Republican Infectious Clinical Hospital named after Professor Agafonov in Kazan. A positive result on COVID-19 he revealed a week ago, the athlete wrote on Instagram.
“I was tested positively on COVID-19 a week ago. The hardest part is behind, I spent three difficult days, but now it’s over, I leave the hospital in a week, ”wrote Erwin Ngapet.
Erwin Ngapet felt signs of a cold after he returned from France, according to the Zenith website. He contacted the club doctor, who asked the volleyball player not to contact anyone and called the Rospotrebnadzor hotline. A special ambulance team arrived at the athlete’s home, which hospitalized him in the infectious diseases hospital.
This is the first case of coronavirus detection in the territory of Tatarstan. The head of the press service of the head of the region, Liliya Galimova, said on Thursday that the patient was feeling well, there was no temperature. “He feels good, according to his medical terminology, closer to satisfactory,” said Mrs. Galimova. A French citizen is tested daily, and if they are negative twice in a row, the attending physician will decide on his discharge.
Erwin Ngapet, 29, has been playing for the Kazan club since 2018, is the European champion and two-time winner of the World League.
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The COVID-19 epidemic began in Wuhan at the end of December. The number of people infected in the world exceeded 240 thousand people, about 9 thousand died. In Russia, the number of cases reached 199 people. In Moscow on March 19, the first woman with confirmed coronavirus died. The Moscow authorities called the cause of death a detached blood clot. According to the operational headquarters, deaths from COVID-19 in Russia have not been recorded.
About the first dead Russian woman with COVID-19 – in the material “b”.
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