Virus

Russia said on Monday that its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities.

For months, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has boasted about Russia’s low fatality rate from the virus, saying earlier this month that it had done a better job at managing the pandemic than western countries.

But since early in the pandemic, some Russian experts have said the government was playing down the country’s outbreak.

On Monday, Russian officials admitted that was true. The Rosstat statistics agency said that the number of deaths from all causes recorded between January and November had risen by 229,700 compared with the previous year.

“More than 81% of this increase in mortality over this period is due to Covid,” said the deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova, meaning that more than 186,000 Russians have died from Covid-19.

Russian health officials have registered more than 3m infections since the start of the pandemic, putting the country’s caseload at fourth-highest in the world.

But they have only reported 55,265 deaths – a much lower fatality rate than in other badly hit countries.

Russia has been criticised for only listing Covid deaths where an autopsy confirms the virus was the main cause.

Evo ja prilazem jedno TAMBURACE ovaj narod pic.twitter.com/WPNjuhtlOk

— Hana (@honi_horrible) December 29, 2020

disident wrote:Imam slabu nadu da republicki zavod za statistiku nece smeti da petlja sa brojkama ukupno preminulih za 2020 zbog saradnje sa eurostatom, pa cemo vec moci grubo da vidmo broj preminulih od kovida.

buffalo bill wrote:

Russian health officials have registered more than 3m infections since the start of the pandemic, putting the country’s caseload at fourth-highest in the world.

But they have only reported 55,265 deaths – a much lower fatality rate than in other badly hit countries.

Russia has been criticised for only listing Covid deaths where an autopsy confirms the virus was the main cause.

*Dr Danijela Bezarević Nikolić ,1974 g, specijalista opšte medicine iz Užica
*Prim Dr Nada Vidić, neuropsihijatar u penziji iz Beograda
*Dr Slobodan Blagojević 1979g spec. urgentne medicine iz Čačka
Neka im je večna slava i hvala
60 preminulih lekara od posledica Kovid19 pic.twitter.com/c2vXezsBnw

— Slavica Plavšić (@SlavicaPlavsic) December 29, 2020

Slažemo se svi u jednom
Ovo je bila ratna godina
I naredna će biti ratna godina
U redu ordenje i druge đinđuve...
Hajde da tražimo da se napravi spisak svih lekara, sestara i drugog medicinskog osoblja koje je poginulo zbog korone, da se njima sutra podigne spomenik?
MOže?

— SLOBODAN J. GEORGIEV (@SlobaGeorgiev) December 29, 2020

Proše godine, šetam se tako po Liverpulu, bazam, i šta primetim: na železničkoj stanici, spomenik: onima koji su bili sa železnice i koji su dali život za otadžbinu u ratu... isto za novinare, isto za poštare... sve popisano, zabeleženo, nema NN, imena i prezimena... tako

— SLOBODAN J. GEORGIEV (@SlobaGeorgiev) December 29, 2020

Margit Savović wrote:Apsolutno. Imate na Netflixu doku seriju o seksualnom napadu na spremacicu u hotelu koji je pocinio Dominik Stros Kan. O silovanju, da preciziram.
Nacin na koji to interpretiraju ljudi u Francuskoj je prosto skandalozan. Ljudi iz Socijalisticke partije, pritom. Kao da smo u Brusu, pa nekako jos gore.

This you hun? pic.twitter.com/ux7OYRC0iM

— Brexile In Berlin (@BrexileInBerlin) December 29, 2020