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Russia now has the highest number of corona infections after the United States. Strict curfews apply. In the crisis, the head of the Kremlin, Putin, has to do with increasing the numbers. Did you make mistakes?
Crown infections are increasing faster than in any other country in Russia. The largest country in the world in terms of area with its approximately 144 million inhabitants now ranks second behind the US. USA More than 10,000 new cases are added every day. And many Russians are also wondering how the numbers can rise massively despite much stricter measures than in Germany. At the same time, the giant empire has one of the lowest death rates: According to statistics, on Wednesday there were only 2,212 deaths from 242,271 infections.
Probably due to low death rates, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin recently spoke of a successful overall course in the crown crisis. However, he was shocked when he asked to return to work this week. Six weeks of forced vacation has ended. But there were always new records of new infections. Even Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskow, the top Kremlin spokesman in the crisis, have hired Corona.
Cartoons about the head of the Kremlin
Putin may have decided that saving the economy was more important, he said. Above all, anti-corruption fighter Alexei Navalny’s opponents of the Kremlin, but also prominent political scientists and economic experts, do not give the president a good testimony in the crisis. The cartoons show the head of the Kremlin, crouching down in his suburban Nowo-Ogarjowo residence and stinging with the treasure chest in hand to help people.
With facial mask only: Construction site work has been allowed to start again this week. (Source: ITAR-TASS / imago images)
In the video “How Putin infected Russia with the Corona virus”, Navalny colleague Leonid Volkov criticizes Putin for wasting valuable time in March and so far has not had a corona strategy. Russia had long lost its initial leadership with relatively few cases. With the duration of the restrictions, the number of infections, unlike in Germany, increases sharply, he says. Putin preferred to deal with the constitutional amendment and the permanent safeguarding of power rather than the timely fight against the virus. “The mistake has a name and it’s called Vladimir Putin.” The President had failed.
In fact, much more infected?
In Moscow, the largest city in Europe, strict curfews are applied. At no time were there contact bans like in Germany. Especially during the May holidays, many Russians gathered to roast and drink. Doctors complain of lack of discipline in people. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin estimated the number of people actually infected in Moscow at 300,000. However, this week he left hundreds of thousands of people to work on construction sites and industrial plants, wearing mouth guards and gloves.
Corona’s next case in the Kremlin: Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskow, is also infected. (Source: Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP / dpa)
Moscow’s leadership recently resisted “false news” that the numbers in Russia as a whole, but especially those of the dead, were embellished. Deputy Prime Minister Tatjana Golikowa emphasized that death rates are actually almost 87 percent lower than in a global comparison. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told parliamentarians on Wednesday that the number of alcohol deaths in Russia increased again during the crisis. Vodka sales had recently increased significantly.
Newspaper: death fines
Critics of the official figures, on the other hand, are still convinced that anyone who falsifies elections, for example, manipulates medical data. For Moscow, the critical Kremlin newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” analyzed that the death rate here in April with 11,846 deaths was about 20 percent higher than the average of previous years. On the sheet, a doctor explains that only clear cases with Covid-19 cause of death would be included in the crown statistics.
Young women in St. Petersburg: As of this week, the government “work vacation” in Russia is over. (Source: Dmitri Lovetsky / dpa)
Anyone who dies of pneumonia or a heart attack with the virus, unlike other countries, is left out of the statistics. It was the same with Russia’s first death in the Crown: A 79-year-old woman in Moscow was first said to have died of Covid-19. Later, the authorities took a step back, noting that he had not died of pneumonia but of thrombosis.
Last but not least, the director of the Russian agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), Melita Vujnovic, repeatedly says that there is no evidence of data manipulation by the authorities. But the search for an explanation continues.
In the tabloid “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, the scientist Alexander Gil explained that the risk group of more than 65 years had been forced to isolate themselves in Moscow since mid-March, much more than younger citizens. Therefore, unlike other crown hotspots around the world, where mainly older people died, the death rate in Russia was generally low. Kremlin chief Putin, 67, had asked older people to put up with this harsh regime for a time.
