Russia's low virus death toll still raises questions in West

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There are allegations by critics and Western media that Russian authorities might have falsified the Covid-19 numbers for political purposes:

Moscow - When Leonid Shlykov's father, Sergei, died in a Moscow hospital last month after 11 days on a ventilator, the death certificate listed the coronavirus as an underlying condition but not the actual cause of death.

Finding the true numbers during the pandemic is difficult, since countries count cases and deaths in different ways and testing for the virus is uneven. “In the vast majority of cases, the pneumonia itself wouldn’t have led to death, had the underlying conditions not flared up to a point of becoming fatal,” she told The Associated Press.

Some countries also are overcounting by including “presumptive deaths” - those who likely died of Covid-19 but were never tested for it, Mokdad said. Pathologists told AP there is pressure from hospital administrators to produce better-looking reports. - In the Altai region in southern Siberia, a task force posted a daily infection update containing the words “for approval” addressed to the provincial governor. It quickly erased the words after it was reported on social media.

Citing a slowdown in infections, Putin ordered the parade for June 24 and the vote for July 1. Most regions, including Moscow, also

 

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Everybody must just mind his own businesses in this time and stop pointing fingers at Russia,China,Brazil etc.

So what's new from Russia?

Even south Africa is falsifying its numbers, nothing different there🤷‍♂️

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