Workers unload oxygen balloons, which are used for treating the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and pneumonia patients, outside a local hospital in Dagestan’s Gurbuki village, Russia, in this undated handout picture. Courtesy of Gurbuki district hospital in the Republic of Dagestan/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is sweeping through some of the mountain villages of Russia's far-flung Dagestan region and they are struggling to treat patients properly, protect medics or even count the dead, five local officials said.
President Vladimir Putin has devoted a coronavirus crisis meeting to Dagestan, the only one of Russia's dozens of regions discussed in this way, and on Wednesday ordered medical brigades from the capital to reinforce local healthcare services.
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