Moscow. June 10. INTERFAX.RU — the Head of the who programme on emergency health Mike Ryan said on Wednesday that it is difficult to understand the reason for the low mortality rate of people with coronavirus COVID-19 in Russia, based on the number of the population.
“It’s certainly unusual that the number of deaths relative to the number of confirmed cases is very low,” he said at a briefing the who.
“it is Important that the authorities provided a method, which is a confirmation of the causes of death in order to ensure that they accurately and properly acknowledge them,” — said the expert.
According to Ryan, in the European region, where there is a high mortality rate, the health system similar to the Russian terms of development and availability.
At the same time, the expert stressed that in some countries, may overstate the rate of deaths among patients with coronavirus. “In some cases, can inflate, can be other major causes of disease,” he said.
According to Ryan, there is a standard official confirmation of the death developed by who, which is provided to each member state the organization for the needs of certification of deaths among those who COVID-19.
