FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist takes her protective gear off in an ambulance parked outside a hospital, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Saint Petersburg, Russia November 11, 2020. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some Russian hospitals are experiencing serious shortages of drugs used to treat COVID-19 and cannot restock because of panic buying, high demand and problems with a new labelling system, officials, distributors and doctors said.
Russia, which has reported the world's fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases, is -- like many other countries -- struggling to cope with a second wave of the disease and the healthcare system outside Moscow is close to breaking point.
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