the representative of the world health organization (who) in Russia, Melita Vujnović, said that the organization does not have any claims to statistics on deaths from the coronavirus in the country. Thus, in an interview with Business FM, she commented on the words of the Director of the who programme on emergency health Michael Ryan about the situation with the deaths in Russia is difficult to understand.
“it is Important to note that the vast testing capabilities in the country allowed Russia to have a very good big picture understanding of what is happening with the epidemic. When they calculated these figures, of course, they reflect the real picture,” — said Vujnović.
To count deaths from coronavirus Moscow is instructions who, she noted. In addition, almost 100 percent of cases body in the country opened, which improves the accuracy of cause of death.
Earlier, head physician of Minsk hospital No. 71 Alexander Myasnikov, known to viewers of “Russia 1” as a doctor, a butcher, said that it is impossible to explain the large number of tests. He stressed that Russia is not dead not in the interest of the population and in absolute numbers.
Russia has Recently moved to a new based on the principles of the world health organization (who), methodology for the calculation of deaths from the coronavirus. Now, consider the cases when the infection COVID-19 resulted in the complication of the underlying disease that caused the death of the patient. In this regard, the Federal statistics mortality occurred adjustments.
the words of Michael Ryan on 10 June gave the Agency Reuters. According to him, the country conducted a large number of tests, and this may be one explanation for the low mortality with high morbidity. In other States in large scale testing people for the presence of the virus, the mortality rate is much higher, said Ryan.
