Vologda: Near the darkened entrance of Hospital Number One in the city of Vologda in Russia’s north-west, an ambulance crew delivers yet another Covid patient, an elderly man struggling to breathe and barely alive.
Inside the hospital, the wards are teeming with the sick and the dying. Doctors here say out of 750 patients currently in the hospital with Covid, 700 of them had not been vaccinated.
Lives are being lost here in this region every day and this is just one of Russia’s many regions.
The Covid pandemic which began in March 2020 has hit Russia particularly hard and it is now facing a virulent fourth wave of the virus.
More than 1,000 people are dying each day across the country, with a total of more than 220,000 deaths so far. These are record numbers for Russia, making it the worst-hit in Europe.
news source: BBC