Workers wearing protective suits disinfect a public bus as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk.
Radio Free Europe: Counted Out: Separatist-Held Areas Of Eastern Ukraine Don't Factor In Global Coronavirus Tally, But Face 'Considerable' Threat
In a far corner of Eastern Europe lies a war-torn territory roughly the size of Belgium and occupied by around 4 million people where coronavirus cases aren't being counted in global tallies, yet health experts warn the situation there is bad and likely to grow worse.
The territory in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions is divided into two parts that Moscow and the Russia-backed forces that hold them call republics. But neither is recognized by the international community, contributing to the area's current status as a coronavirus black hole.
The number of coronavirus infections is rising rapidly, there is no personal protective equipment to be bought anywhere, and there is a shortage of capable doctors, according to a local nurse who spoke to RFE/RL on condition of anonymity.
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