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Gruesome images have been released from inside Russia showing around 50 bodies hidden in an overflowing morgue.
This comes amid fears that the true number of Covid-19 victims in the country is three times the scale admitted by official statistics.
The Novokuznetsk video highlighting bodies stacked on top of each other is the second example of such images in a week from Siberia.
And in a separate incident in southern Russia, new details have emerged of an incident in which 13 vulnerable coronavirus patients died when their oxygen supply suddenly ran out.
A distraught worker filmed the gruesome morgue scenes showing dozens of bodies, most, but not all, in black bags, hidden in a hallway and a room typically used for post-mortem examinations.
He called the video “A minute in the life of a Covid morgue in the city of Novokuznetsk.”
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He showed the spectators some disinfection equipment in the ‘clean zone’ before saying, “Now let’s go to the ‘dirty zone’, see what’s in here.
“We have a corridor and it is full. Here’s a dissection room. Corpses everywhere, corpses, corpses everywhere.
“You can even trip and fall. We literally walk on the heads of the dead. “
The local health ministry of the Kemerovo region confirmed the authenticity of the video.
Reports say Oleg Evsa, head of the ministry’s local department, was fired by local governor Sergey Tsivilev, who is now suffering from coronavirus.
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A statement read: “Given the increase in the number of cases during the last three weeks, there is an increase in the number of deaths.
“Due to a delay in the delivery of the bodies, around 50 bodies of the deceased were stored here.”
The ministry said that many family members were sick with Covid-19 or in quarantine and therefore could not collect the bodies of their loved ones for funerals.
Separate images last week showed about 30 bodies in black bags hidden in a basement of a hospital in Barnaul, Altai region.
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Another video featured on Borusio’s social media shows dozens of people suffering from Covid-19 symptoms in Zheleznogorsk forced to queue in freezing temperatures to see a doctor.
Similar queues were observed in Krasnoyarsk.
There have been reports of a serious shortage of antibiotics.
In Rostov-on-Don, new details of a case emerged last week when 13 patients died after the oxygen supply at Hospital No. 20 ran out.
A doctor, Artur Toporov, has written to Vladimir Putin to reveal how doctors made desperate calls to restore oxygen supplies to critically ill patients, but to no avail.
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“At 10:10 pm … oxygen dropped to zero,” he wrote, explaining that this followed a series of supply disruptions.
“Our reserves were empty.
“The condition of all the patients worsened. We call the chief physician again. For 40 minutes there was no oxygen in the fans. The fifth clinical death was registered at 10.30 pm ”.
Reports say a total of 13 died.
He claimed that hospital bosses had begun to remove evidence of the oxygen disruption as detectives begin to investigate the shocking incident.
Russia’s national coronavirus information center has recorded some 26,050 deaths from Covid-19, but a second spike is severely affecting some regions.
Russia’s state statistics agency Rosstat put the actual number of coronavirus deaths at 45,663 between April and August, the latest available month for which information is available.
However, a demographic forecaster Alexei Raksha who left Russia this summer claiming an official cover-up has said that the real total should be “multiplied by three”, making it one of the worst in Europe.
The excess deaths now stand at around 115,000, it is claimed.
“I don’t think the data related to public health or the death toll should be hidden,” he told Bloomberg.
“It is a throwback to some of the worst practices in the Soviet Union.”
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