5 hours agoRussia's gold mine is hit by coronary, army intervenes
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)A worker at Russia's largest gold mine has died of the Coronavirus, the operation company said Thursday, as troops established quarantine camps in the effort to contain a larger explosion from the pandemic. More than 140 workers at the Olympics mine and processing plant in the Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk currently [...]
A worker at Russia's largest gold mine has died of the Coronavirus, the operation company said Thursday, as troops established quarantine camps in the effort to contain a larger explosion from the pandemic.
More than 140 workers at the Olympics mine and processing plant in the Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk are currently hospitalised, and hundreds more have tested positively for coronary.
The polyus mine operator confirmed today that one of his employees died of the virus.
“The men fought for his life for 10 days,” the company said in an answer to the AFP.
Earlier Thursday, the Russian Army said it had prepared a camp to quarantine workers in the mine, which employs about 6,000 people after the coronary explosion in the mine.
Local health officials said 805 workers at the Olympics mine had come up positive this week in coronary tests, but said more than 90 percent did not show symptoms of the virus.
Polius Director Pavel Grahev said mine operations are continuing as usual.
Russia, which has the second number of coronary cases after the US, has recorded a total of 3117,554 infections, including 2,821 in the Krasnoyarsk region, with 3.099 deaths nationwide.
