With COVID-19 deaths climbing and hospitals strained, Russia rolls out restrictions

As an increasingly deadly fourth wave of COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm Russia’s hospitals, officials who had been hesitant to implement restrictions in recent months are doing so now in a desperate attempt to try to reduce the record number of people dying every day. 

On Monday, there was an all-time high of 37,930 new cases, along with 1,069 additional deaths, according to the country’s coronavirus task force.

“There is a real war in the red zone in hospitals throughout the country,” Dr. Denis Protsenko, the country’s chief coronavirus doctor, wrote on his Telegram social media account

“Look at the number of free beds and a lot will fall into