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The Muftiate of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has urged Muslims to celebrate Eid al-Fitr (Uraza Bayram) with their families, and not to visit cemeteries and other people in the conditions of the restrictions imposed because of the epidemic.

The head of Chechnya has ordered to bring the medics of the Gudermes Central District Hospital (CDH), who had complained about the working conditions, to responsibility. The same concerned their relatives, while the author of the message about a doctor's death was blamed as a provocateur, and Kadyrov demanded fire him.

Employees of budget-funded organizations were forced to participate in garbage collection and tree whitewashing, despite the restrictions introduced to COVID-19, residents of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya have informed. The self-isolation regime "passes with benefit," said the head of the district.

The staff of the Gudermes Central District Hospital (CDH) has stated, on air of the state television, that their complaints about the deficit of protective means were unjustified. Residents of Chechnya believe that employees of the CDH were forced to apologize.

As of today, the number of COVID-19 infections registered in the Stavropol Territory has reached 1367; 17 patients are in grave condition. Authorities are loosening restrictions, despite the worsening of the coronavirus situation in the region, Instagram commentators believe.

Medical students, doctors and nurses have agreed to go to work in hospitals where coronavirus patients are treated, activists of the "Companions of Good" movement have informed.

Despite the alarming coronavirus situation in Dagestan, an irresponsible attitude towards prophylactic measures is observed among ordinary residents and among state servants, Muslim Gasan-Guseinov, a member of the public headquarters, has stated. Doctors of the region should publicize the problems existing in medical institutions regarding the COVID-19 situation, said Ziyaudin Uvaisov, the head of the NGO "Patient's Monitor".

During the last 24 hours, Azerbaijan revealed 101 new cases of coronavirus infection; one patient died. Since May 18, the country's government will cancel the permissive system of leaving home; the catering facilities, museums and exhibition halls will reopen.

The claims voiced out by doctors of the Gudermes Central District Hospital (CDH) during their protest are addressed to the federal centre, Professor Alexei Malashenko believes. Doctors announced their problems not fearing the measures applied in Chechnya to intimidate critics of the authorities, said Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender.

Law enforcers institute the third criminal case against Vadim Cheldiev, an initiator of the protests in North Ossetia. The criminal case has been instituted under the article on extremism. Vadim Cheldiev is included in the list of extremists compiled by the "Rosfinmonitoring" (the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring).

In Gudermes, the chief doctor of the Central District Hospital failed to understand his staff and explain to his subordinates that the hospital was only preparing to receive patients diagnosed with the coronavirus infection, so the staff did not need protective gear, said Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteurs for monitoring in Azerbaijan expressed their concern over the increased prosecution of critics of the authorities in the country. The PACE rapporteurs warned the authorities of Azerbaijan to "refrain from any abuse of measures intended to fight the coronavirus pandemic to muzzle political opposition."

Amid the epidemic height, the party of the new president, Araik Arutyunyan, has held an expanded sitting, by gathering more than three hundred people indoors without protective means, members of the oppositional movements of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have stated.