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Russian authorities have admitted that more than 80% of the excess deaths this year are related to Covid-19. This implies an upward revision of the death toll which will be estimated at three times what was previously reported. At least 186,000 Russians died from causes related to the coronavirus infection in 2020, compared to an official estimate that so far spoke of only 55,827 deaths related to the viral pathology.
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Excess deaths is the difference between the total number of registered deaths and the average number of deaths in the same period in previous years. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana golikova has intervened in recent days to explain that the vast majority of excess deaths are caused by the pandemic. “More than 81% of the increase in mortality is due to Covid,” the government representative headed by the president explained to the press. Vladimir Putin. Russia was subject of criticism for many months due to its method of calculating official deaths from Covid-19 based on the number of post-mortem examinations performed on patients in whom the coronavirus is recognized as the leading cause of death. In essence, that difficult distinction between Covid deaths and Covid deaths is made without in-depth examinations. However, this means that the majority of the victims of the pandemic are not included in the official estimates.
The third most affected country in the world
The new numbers indicate that the death toll from coronavirus in Russia may be the third highest in the world, after the United States (335,000 deaths) and Brazil (192,000 deaths). At least 3.1 million infections have been reported nationwide. According to Rosstat, the Russian statistical agency, 229,700 more people died this year than in 2019. Golikova also said that mortality in the first 11 months of 2020 was 13.8% higher than the previous year. But the deputy prime minister has firmly denied that the Russian government withheld the mortality data.
The hope entrusted to Sputnik V
President Putin has recognized that his health system is the most effective in the world to combat the virus. Russia has pinned its hopes on the Sputnik V vaccine, which is now also exported to Belarus, Argentina and Hungary, although it has not been approved by the European Union Agency for Medicines (EMA). Vaccines began in Belarus on Tuesday, and seven doctors received the drug at a Minsk clinic. So far, some 700,000 doses have been administered in Russia.
