Official COVID-19 Death Tally In Russia's Dagestan Masks 'Catastrophe,' Residents Say
Russia has sent crews to assist in Dagestan, where the official number of COVID-19 deaths is 29. "It long ago became clear the official statistics have no basis in reality," says a resident.
The Kremlin is racing to put down a health crisis in the southern republic of Dagestan, where a surge in recent deaths unattributed to the coronavirus is again raising questions about the true severity of the outbreak and how Russia tallies its COVID-19 dead.
National attention fell on Dagestan, a majority-Muslim republic of nearly Dzhamaludin Gadzhiibragimov on his YouTube channel.
