- forty medics dead in Dagestan Archived Message
Posted by Gerard
on May 19, 2020, 8:28 pm
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"Prior to the minister’s interview, the southern republic had 3,280 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 27 deaths. Later, in an official press release, the Dagestan Ministry of Health explained that the deaths of medical workers were not all related to coronavirus. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, about 40 medical workers have died in Dagestan – not only doctors, but also middle and junior medical staff, and other employees. And, not all of them died from coronavirus and pneumonia – there were other diagnoses,” the ministry explained in a statement. On Monday, in a conference call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dagestan’s Mufti Ahmad Abdullaev said the number of deceased medical personnel is actually around 50. In the Instagram interview, Hajibragimov described how more than 13,000 people in the region had received community-acquired pneumonia diagnoses, with 657 of those having passed away. Dagestan maintains two separate sets of statistics on coronavirus and community-acquired pneumonia, but pneumonia patients receive almost the same treatment as those with Covid-19. On Monday afternoon, the situation in the republic was addressed by Anna Popova, the head of Russia’s health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor. According to Popova, almost 60 percent of coronavirus patients there are severely ill with pneumonia. She also explained how the proportion of patients aged over 65 is double Russia’s overall average, and that the region’s testing coverage is two times lower than expected." https://www.rt.com/russia/488991-coronavirus-outbreak-medical-staff-death/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/18/putin-intervenes-as-russias-dagestan-faces-virus-catastrophe-a70305 |
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