This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Health.

“At present, a group of specialists in full force is working in Derbent, where the most difficult situation has developed. According to experts, insufficient work was noted in organizing the sanitary-anti-epidemic regime in medical organizations providing medical care to patients with COVID-19, ”the department said.

It is specified that in the expert group there are three infectious disease specialists and three resuscitation anesthetists. 

Earlier it became known that a group of doctors from federal medical centers arrived in Dagestan to help local doctors.

On May 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Rospotrebnadzor to constantly monitor the epidemiological situation in Dagestan.