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The probable cause of death of three Russians who died after being examined in one of the diagnostic centers in St. Petersburg has become identified. About it informs REN TV.
According to the source of the coronavirus, patients should have been identified before the detection of harmless barium sulfate, but the procedure was carried out using a drug that gets into dangerous water-soluble barium salts.
It is noted that, according to some reports, the substances are introduced under a contract with the raw material company OOO Neva Reaktiv. The firm said it was working with barium sulphate, which is not meant to be taken orally and is only used for industrial purposes.
“We supply chemical reagents, and we have this barium sulfate – not for fluoroscopy. This is a purely chemical reagent for industrial purposes. It’s a chemical reagent. This is not consumption,” explained Arkady Kamchatov, head of the company.
In addition, he accurately specified that the contract with the consumption agency did not state that the substances they were importing would be in Free Emissions.
The discovery became known on January 26. The old Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg reports two dead. On January 27, the list was expanded to three, three more were hospitalized in intensive care. A criminal case has been initiated under the article “Causing death by negligence”.