A former Russian beauty queen has filmed a video inside a morgue with corpses in bags piled up to show the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Olga Kagarlitskaya, 37, had to collect her dad's body from a morgue in the city of Samara, in southwestern Russia. Gennady Kagarlitsky, who was a doctor, died of coronavirus after apparently contracting it while transporting Covid-19 victims by ambulance to hospital.
His daughter Olga - who was Miss Samara 2005 - ignored morgue staff who tried to prevent her from seeing how many corpses in black bags were piled up in the morgue. “Our official statistics are seven dead in Samara (from coronavirus),” she said on a video. “Here we see far more than seven.” Later workers at the morgue told her they were