ST. PETERSBURG, July 7 (RAPSI, Mikhail Telekhov) – An outpatient clinic in St. Petersburg where 43 employees had been infected with coronavirus was fined 100,000 rubles ($1,400) by the Frunzensky District Court, the United press service of the city’s courts told RAPSI on Tuesday.

The organization was found guilty of violation sanitary rules committed at times of the emergency.

According to the St. Petersburg Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the sanitary and epidemiological inquiry revealed absence of the required month personal protection devices supply including protective outerwear suits, respirators, medical masks, gloves, high overshoes and protective glasses in the outpatient clinic. Moreover, information on the positive COVID-19 tests passed by the medical employees was not filed with the Center in time, the statement reads. As a result, 43 coronavirus cases among the medics were recorded.