Russia on Monday said its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than previously reported, making it the country with the third highest number of deaths.
For months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has boasted about Russia’s low death rate from the virus, saying earlier this month that he had done a better job controlling the whole disease. -distributed western countries.
But since the beginning of the pandemic, some Russian experts have said that the government was playing with the country’s uprising.
On Monday, Russian officials admitted that was true. Statistics agency Rosstat said the number of deaths from all causes recorded between January and November had risen by 229,700 compared to the previous year.
“More than 81% of this increase in deaths over this period is due to Covid,” said deputy prime minister Tatiana Golikova, adding that more than 186,000 Russians have died from Covid-19.
Russian health officials have recorded more than 3m outbreaks since the outbreak began, placing the country’s affairs at the fourth highest in the world.
But they have named only 55,265 deaths – a much lower death rate than in other severely affected countries.
Russia has been criticized for listing Covid ‘s deaths only where an autopsy confirms that the virus is the main cause.
Covid-19 cases in Russia
Alexei Raksha, a demographic who left Rosstat in July, told AFP last week that the Russian health ministry and the consumer health ministry are falsifying coronavirus numbers.
Rosstat’s new figures mean Russia is now the third highest Covid-19 death toll in the world behind the US with 333,140 and Brazil with 191,139, according to an AFP report.
Russian authorities insist they will not block locks across the country. The Kremling hopes to support a struggling economy even as the country is hit by a second wave of diseases.
The Russian government estimates that the economy will shrink 3.9% this year, and its central bank expects a deeper recession.
At his anniversary press conference earlier this month, Putin rejected the idea of forcing the kind of lockout that many European countries have introduced into free trade. Christmas holidays.
“If we follow the rules and requirements of health regulators, we will not need any locks,” he said.
Although strict measures have been imposed in some cities, authorities in many areas have limited restrictions on the use of mascara in public places and the reduction of mass gatherings.
But many Russians are repealing social distance rules, and in recent weeks the country’s outpouring has overtaken poorly-funded hospitals in the areas.
Instead Russia has expressed its hopes of polluting the revolution by vaccinating humans with their Sputnik V injection, named after a Soviet-era satellite.
The country launched a major vaccination program earlier this month, involving high-risk workers ages 18-60 without infectious diseases.
Over the weekend, people over 60 got the green light to get the bullet.
On Monday, developer Sputnik V, the state – run Gamaleya research center, said about 700,000 doses have so far been released for domestic use.
However, Russia has not said how many people have been vaccinated so far, and according to recent studies by the state-run polling company VCIOM and polling group Levada no. only 38% of Russians plan to get the bullet.