Dagestan is a poor mountainous region of Russia, which has the third-highest number of infections. While numbers of new infections are going slightly down in Moscow the virus just hit the regions.
In Dagestan, 73% of the population live below the poverty line and many people from there work in Moscow to make some living for their families. But with the start of the countrywide lockdown in March, tens of thousands of them returned back home bringing COVID-19. The old and obsolete healthcare system immediately collapsed. Dagestan provincial government kept the death toll from 34 to two weeks ago,...