As Russia’s regions struggle to cope with piles of bodies in hospital morgues and medicine shortages, health authorities today reported a record 442 new deaths in Russia related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Health authorities reported 22,410 new confirmed cases, placing Russia fifth in the world in the total number of confirmed cases, with a total of approximately 1.95 million confirmed cases. An additional 33,391 people died from the disease.
In the Ivanovo region northeast of Moscow, local Health Minister Artur Fokin said that local hospital morguees were full of corpses.
The independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that in some areas, the pharmacy had run out of medicine, and ambulance crews were overwhelmed and unable to treat all the patients.
In addition, a coronavirus mutation is emerging in Siberia.
We are seeing certain changes in Siberia that allow us to assume that a version of the virus itself with a specific mutation is forming in the region,” Anna Popova, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), was quoted by the news agency as saying. “
Popova did not elaborate on how infectious or deadly the mutation is, but said that the mutation does not make the coronavirus more dangerous.
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