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Deputy Prime Minister Golikova admits that CoV deaths in Russia are three times more likely to be reported, making the country the third deadliest region in the world.
Russia’s Federal Statistical Agency Rosstat released data on December 28 showing that the number of deaths from all causes from January to November in the country increased by 229,700 cases during the same period last year.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on the same day that “more than 81% of the increase in deaths during this period was due to Covid-19”, meaning that more than 186,000 Russians have died from the pandemic.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova speaks in Moscow on March 14. Image: Reuters.
This is three times higher than the official figure of 55,200 Covid-19 deaths previously reported by Russian health officials, out of more than three million CoV infections nationwide. Russia has been criticized for only counting deaths from nCoV if an autopsy confirmed the virus was the main cause.
According to new data released by Rosstat, Russia has become the third deadly epidemic area in the world, after the United States with more than 340,000 deaths and Brazil with more than 190,000 cases.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has bragged for months about his low death rate from nCoV. Putin said earlier this month that Russia had “better” control over the pandemic than Western countries. However, since the Covid-19 outbreak, some Russian experts have doubted that the government is trying to mitigate the severity of the pandemic.
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine was approved on August 11, making it the first Covid-19 vaccine in the world to be licensed, although human trials have yet to be completed. On November 24, Russia released preliminary data on the testing process, saying that Sputnik V is 95% effective, equivalent to Western vaccines such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
Russia began rolling out the Sputnik V vaccine as part of its national vaccination program in early December, targeting the high-risk group, while phase three testing continued in the capital. time. Russia also approved the Sputnik V vaccine for people over 60 years of age on December 26, starting in the new year 2021.
Ngoc Anh (According to the AFP)
