New hotspot in Russia raises questions about country's Covid-19 count

Russia's southern republic of Dagestan provided President Vladimir Putin with his first real test as a national leader in 1999, when militants in Chechnya crossed the border and launched a war that forged his image as a man of action.

source https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/19/europe/coronavirus-russia-dagestan-intl/index.html