The number of new infections per day has already exceeded 40,000 twice a week this week.
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Most new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Moscow region.
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1,160 people died in Covid-19 during the day. The largest number of Covid-19 victims is in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Krasnodar region.
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Officially, 8,472,797 cases of Covid-19 have been registered in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic, and 237,380 people have died from Covid-19.
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True, Russia’s statistical office Rosstat said on Friday that 44,265 people died of Covid-19 in the country in September, more than twice the official number of Covid-19 victims provided by the government.
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Thus, according to Rosstat, the total number of Covid-19 victims in Russia has reached almost 450,000.
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According to the data published by the government, only those cases in which Covid-19 was found to be the main cause of death at autopsy are included among the victims of Covid-19. Rosstat, meanwhile, uses a broader definition of Covid-19 deaths.
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In Russia, the culmination of the fourth wave of coronavirus infection has not yet been reached, Professor Vladimir Chulanov, the chief freelance specialist of infectious diseases of the Ministry of Health, admitted in an interview with the news agency “Interfax” on Monday.
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The future spread of coronavirus in Russia will depend on vaccination and epidemiological measures in the country’s regions.
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