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Russia’s coronavirus deaths still hover near all-time highs

A medic wearing a special suit to protect against coronavirus fills documents as a body of a COVID-19 victim lies on a stretcher at an ICU of a hospital in Volgograd, Russia, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. The latest surge in deaths comes amid low vaccination rates and lax public attitudes in Russia toward taking precautions. About 40% of Russia's nearly 146 million people have been fully vaccinated, even though the country approved a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine — Sputnik V — months before most of the world. (AP Photo/Alexandr Kulikov) Medics wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus treat patients with coronavirus at an ICU of a hospital in Volgograd, Russia, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. The latest surge in deaths comes amid low vaccination rates and lax public attitudes in Russia toward taking precautions. About 40% of Russia's nearly 146 million people have been fully vaccinated, even though the country approved a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine — Sputnik V — months before most of the world. (AP Photo/Alexandr Kulikov) An employee of the Control and Auditing Service of the Transport Committee of the Kazan Mayor's Office, right, checks a passenger's QR code proving the absense of the coronavirus infection on a smart phone screen in a bus in Kazan, Russia, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Kazan, the central city of the Russian province of Tatarstan, became the first in Russia to start requiring proof of vaccination or past illness for access to public transport. (AP Photo)