Russia's ventilators: plentiful, but often old and sometimes broken

As new cases of the coronavirus accelerate in Russia, by one measure it is relatively well placed to cope with the pandemic. Russia has around 27 ventilators per 100,000 citizens, according to the government, considerably more than the 18.8 per 100,000 in the United States, according to the John Hopkins University. Many ventilators in central regional or district hospitals, regarded as the core of the health system outside big cities, were made in the 1990s, data provided to Reuters by Headway Group, an analytics firm that tracks government tenders, show.