Covid-19 has spread through Russia. Now, shortages of protective equipment and accusations of underreporting, which Coda Story’s Ilan Greenberg and Katerina Fomina reported in March, are affecting institutions across the country.
From Perm to Omsk to Novosibirsk, understaffed health care facilities are struggling to keep infection rates down and adequately protect medical workers. In regional hospitals “the situation is much more difficult than in Moscow” said Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Doctors’ Alliance, an opposition-aligned trade union.
Her organization has called attention to the plight of medical workers around the country via an interactive map, which shows the locations of health worker fatalities due to Covid-19, currently numbering 573, as well as complaints the union has received regarding issues like unpaid salaries or lack of protective equipment.
The Doctors’ Alliance also says that many doctors who were infected with the virus have not received compensation they are legally due from hospitals, because they are required to prove that the infection occurred at their workplace.










