Bloomberg changed the title of the article about the deaths from the coronavirus in Russia after the comment of the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova.
Now the material is called "Experts wonder about the Russian data on mortality from COVID-19".
As stated in the comments to the article, the name was changed to show that its authors "have questioned the methodology of the statistics," the number of victims of coronavirus in Russia.
This week Bloomberg published an article under the heading "Experts want to know why the coronavirus killed more Russians", which stated that Russia had incorrectly counted deaths COVID-19.
After that, Zakharova wrote on Facebook that this publication suggests that the West is conducting a disinformation campaign against Moscow. She cited the words of the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who said that Russia and China seek to "change order" using the situation with the pandemic coronavirus infection. In turn, Zakharov stressed that in a world where Bloomberg publishes articles with such titles, "not okay".
After this article, the Agency became known as the "Experts wonder why the coronavirus killed more Russians".
As suggested by Zakharov, Bloomberg realized that "the title of the terrible". She added that Agency experts have, apparently, offended by the original title of the article.
Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (exciter COVID-19) was first identified in late December of the year in the Chinese city of Wuhan. In early March, the who has recognized his outbreak a pandemic. According to the organization, in the world infected more than 4.4 million people, more than 300 thousand died.
According to calculations of the Johns Hopkins University, in the first place by the number of infected are the USA, Russia ranks second. The United States ranks first and the number of victims — more than 87 thousand people. Next come the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Spain.
In Russia, the total number is 272 043 infected human, recovered 63 166. Conducted more than 6.6 million tests. For the last day in 83 Russian regions recorded 9200 new cases, of which nearly 45% were without symptoms.
This week the President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced that a six-week regime of non-working days ends may 12. The decision to ease restrictions in each of the regions will be taken by the local authorities.
