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https://tass.com/russia/1250729
From December 2020
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4975
MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 19,032 in the past 24 hours, the total number of infected people has reached 3,832,080, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday.
According to the crisis center, the growth rate stands at 0.5%.
From December 2020
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4975
Russia’s true death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic is not about 57 000, as official figures claim, but more than 180 000, the country’s deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova, conceded at a press conference.
Russia’s claims of an extraordinarily low mortality have been widely dismissed as implausible for months by foreign observers and Russian doctors alike. Every other indicator, from packed hospitals with long lines of ambulances to mortality among health workers documented by their own associations, has painted a picture of a country hit hard by the pandemic, not one miraculously spared.They now appear to be at a similar level to early November 2020.