The event was also attended by the First Deputy Head of the medical department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Colonel of the Internal Service Irina Larionova, Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan, Colonel of the Internal Service Andrei Polyakov, Deputy Director of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Research Center for phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Vadim Testov, Head of correctional colony №2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Russia in the Republic of Dagestan, lieutenant colonel of the internal service Rauf Gabibov.
Despite the fact that Moscow was the first to face the threat of the spread of diseases caused by a new coronavirus infection, Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Moscow took all the necessary measures to protect citizens in custody, as well as employees and employees of the penal correction system from it.
Three cases of suspicion of a new coronavirus infection among detainees have been identified in pre-trial detention center № 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Necessary laboratory tests are carried out.
As of May 25, 2020, in 47 territorial bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, among the suspects, accused, convicts held in the penitentiary system, there is no a single case of the disease caused by a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 was recorded: in the city of Zafaikalsky (ZFSN) of Russia according to Zabaykalsky Kamchatka, Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Altai, Krasnodar, Stavropol Territories, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra, Altai Republics, Tyva, Khakassia, Buryatia, Sakha (Yakutia), Komi, Adygea, Kalmykia, Ingushetia, KCR, Mordovia, Mordovia Udmurtia, Chechen Republic, Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ulyanovsk, Kurgan, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Bryansk, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Lipetsk, Smolensk, Tambov, Volga, Tambov, Rostov, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara regions, Kemerovo region - Kuzbass.
More than 35 thousand laboratory tests for a new coronavirus infection were carried out in institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system, about 14000 were carried out in prisons.