Ilyas Hajji

COVID Crisis in Dagestan

Among all regions of the Russian North Caucasus, most deaths and new cases of infection were recorded in the Republic of Dagestan. Initially, few people in Dagestan believed in the severity of the epidemic due to the spread of conspiracy fakes. They believed it only when they began to lost their relatives. Along with deaths from coronavirus, the death rate from pneumonia has sharply increased in the republic. Journalists believe these patients also died from the coronavirus. Due to the concealment of information about the real number of cases, local hospitals did not receive medicines in the required volume, which led to a critical situation, making Dagestan one of the leaders in the number of cases in Russia. A series of photographs presents a reportage from the Central hospital of the capital of Dagestan — Makhachkala