and for three months the number of deaths in perm shot up. it was just terrible to see these patients. this man remembers leaving patients at home because hospitals had no space for them. i think the restrictions should be more tough. if it was done, i think we have less cases of illness and less number of deaths. the most vulnerable are now getting protected, though national roll—out of russia's sputnik v vaccine is slow. even so, the infection rate here is falling, and some think that's because so many people already had covid. but when i asked this senior doctor whether russia should have locked down tighter, he said no. translation: you can't leave people without work either. _ that's really bad.