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A Moscow Health Department report said a total of 15,713 deaths were recorded in the city in May, including 5,260 victims of the COVID-19 coronavirus infection.
This death rate in the city was the highest since the summer of 2010, when Moscow was overwhelmed by an unprecedented heat wave and suffocating smog from burning forests and bogs.
“5,260 cases of COVID-19 were identified as the leading or concomitant cause of death,” said the Health Department, adding that more than half of the cases in which coronavirus infection was the leading cause of death.
Authorities said 5,175 more people died in Moscow last month than in May last year. Compared to May’s multi-year mortality average, 57 percent was recorded last month. higher death toll.
Authorities have previously recognized that there is likely to be a significant increase in mortality.
The department noted that all patients, regardless of illness, were adequately treated, therefore, “65,000 seriously ill patients were rescued.”
To date, 493,657 cases of coronavirus infection have been reported in Russia. According to this indicator, the country is the third in the world after the United States and Brazil.
However, in Russia, which reported 6,358 victims of the epidemic, COVID-19 mortality is much lower than in other countries severely affected by the pandemic.
Critics have raised doubts about official statistics and accused services of manipulating the data to make the scale of the crisis appear smaller.
Russia says the relative lower number of victims of the virus is due in part to mass tests to identify more people infected with only mild symptoms of the disease or without any symptoms.
The government argues that causes of death are carefully determined on the basis of autopsy data and in accordance with international standards set by the World Health Organization.
Moscow is the main focus of the COVID-19 epidemic in Russia, accounting for about half of all infections in the country. However, on Tuesday, quarantine restrictions in the capital were drastically reduced, causing residents to flood the streets of Moscow and create traffic jams.
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