MOSCOW, May 18 (RAPSI, Alena Savelyeva) – Chair of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has urged Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova to pay attention to the problems faced by homeless people affected by benign coronavirus disease, according to a statement of the body’s press-service.

At present, the Council Chair notes, NGOs testing for COVID-19 the homeless when doling out food inform that in case individuals without residency registration and often without ID documents are proved infected, they are refused hospitalization and offered to try self-isolation in hostels.

Nevertheless, hostels deny them admittance on health safety grounds insisting that they may infect the residents, what makes such persons with COVID-19 to stay outdoors risking their chance to recovery and menacing health of other people, especially in downtowns of big cities.

The Human Rights Council concerned with the situation urges the government to get it under its control and develop a set of rules governing the medical treatment of homeless people with COVID-19.