Russia reported Tuesday a record high 442 new coronavirus -related deaths as the country's regions struggled to cope with overflowing morgues and medicine shortages. Health authorities on Tuesday recorded 22,410 new infections making Russia's virus caseload the fifth-highest in the world with some 1.95 million registered infections. In a number of regions, doctors and patients have reported extreme pressure on emergency services, medicine deficits and overflowing morgues. In the Ivanovo region northeast of Moscow, the regional health minister Artur Fokin said that local morgues were overflowing with corpses. "In most regions with a tense situation, the reason is the delay in decisions to introduce restrictive measures," he said.

Source: Mint November 17, 2020 09:45 UTC