NEW YORK, may 20. /TASS/. American Agency Bloomberg on Tuesday introduced changes to the published his website material on the spread of the coronavirus in Russia after the Russian Embassy in Washington demanded a retraction.
Earlier, the Embassy posted a message on his page in Facebook, which noted that the author of this publication swapped the statistical data from the world Bank (WB) on the number of hospital beds in Russia and in the countries of the Organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD). According to the real statistics of the world Bank, in Russia in 2013 per 1 ths people accounted for 8.2 hospital beds in OECD countries is 3.8, however, the publication author’s comments on the Agency’s website these figures are the opposite: 3.8 V RF and 8.2 in OECD countries.
Now in the material indicated that it had been made the edit. Changed was the signatures in the chart, which illustrates the data of the world Bank the number of hospital beds in Russia and OECD countries. In press service Agency has not yet responded to the request for TASS to comment.
may 16, Bloomberg corrected the title of his material is dated 13 may, which caused criticism of the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Original version — “the Experts want to know why the coronavirus killed more Russian” was changed to “the Experts have questioned the Russian data on mortality due COVID-19”.
