78-year-old Lev Leshchenko was in intensive care with pneumonia and suspected COVID-19
'26.03.2020'
Source: Газета.ру
People's Artist of Russia Lev Leshchenko, hospitalized a day earlier in a clinic in Kommunarka with a diagnosis of bilateral pneumonia, was transferred to the intensive care unit. According to the singer's concert director, the department has the latest equipment, and Leshchenko is undergoing oxygen therapy, writes "Gazeta.ru".
The popular singer Lev Leshchenko was transferred to the intensive care unit of the hospital in Kommunarka, the Baza Telegram channel reports. It is reported that the people's artist of Russia began to have difficulty breathing. He was put in the intensive care unit, where Leshchenko managed to stabilize his condition.
The singer was hospitalized on March 24 with a diagnosis of bilateral pneumonia. As the concert director of the performer Oleg Dmitriev told the Podem publication, Leshchenko arrived in Moscow on March 11, after which he found symptoms of SARS. However, he could not wait for help from the doctors, as a result of which he turned to a private ambulance, which hospitalized him in a hospital in Kommunarka.
Oleg Dmitriev also shared the details of the singer’s stay in the department.
"He is in intensive care," feeds "oxygen. This is not an emergency, they explained to me. This is the best place for such a procedure, where it is the cleanest and most convenient, where the latest equipment stands. Exemplary care is behind him, ”TASS quoted Dmitriev as saying.
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Leschenko’s suspicion of coronavirus has not yet been withdrawn - his tests were sent to Novosibirsk, and now everyone is waiting for the results. Note that pneumonia is a common complication among patients with COVID-19.
Earlier, Leshchenko’s friend, humorist Vladimir Vinokur, denied rumors in the media that he had visited the singer in Kommunarka.
“Yesterday, some media wrote that I visited him in the hospital. And how is it at all? Kommunarka is an infectious diseases hospital, ”RIA Novosti quoted as saying.
On the afternoon of March 26, local time, Vinokur reported "RIA News"that the results of Leshchenko's analysis are not yet available, and they will be "within a couple of days."
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Bolotova is known for her roles in the films “Trap”, “Journalist”, “The House I Live In”, “The Fate of the Resident”, “Dangerous Age” and others.
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“I consider it my moral duty to announce to you that I have a positive result at COVID-19,” the message says. - I was in isolation with my family, as prescribed by the authorities. We felt good for a long time, but suddenly I had a fever and a cough. "I passed the coronavirus test, which returned with a positive result."
Also, the epidemic did not pass over the popular British actor Idris Elba, who spoke about a positive test for coronavirus in him and his wife.
The same day, the disease was reported by the popular actress Olga Kurylenko, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 when she was in London. The actress was not hospitalized, and she remained in quarantine at home. She also said that they did not give her any special drugs, and she only drinks paracetamol in case of sharp rises in temperature.
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