Via JAM News: Almost 700 people have died in Dagestan of 'pneumonia'; 40 were doctors.
The minister of health of Dagestan, Jamaludin Hajiyibragimov, told reporters that since the outbreak of the epidemic in the republic, 657 people have died from “pneumonia.”
The coronavirus, he said, killed 27 people.
Journalists and bloggers believe that in fact all these people died from the coronavirus. And they also say that these figures are underestimated, and the situation is actually even worse.
According to official information, 3,280 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Dagestan. But the minister said that more than 13 thousand people were hospitalized with ‘pneumonia’ in hospitals in Dagestan.