Low mortality from COVID-19 in Russia due to quick detection of mild cases of the disease and the effective work of doctors, told the newspaper "Izvestia" Director of the Institute for medical Parasitology, tropical and vector-borne diseases sechenovskiy University, doctor of medical science, Professor, RAS Alexander Lukashev.
"I would not focus on the total number of cases. Perhaps of greater significance to us is the statistics of severe cases and deaths," said Lukashev.
According to him, currently, the mortality rate among patients with coronavirus in Russia is 0.8%, which is considerably lower than in Italy and Spain with the same number of cases.
December 31, 2019, the Chinese government announced the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan. The causative agent is a new type of coronavirus, which has the official name COVID-2019. March 11, the world health organization (who) declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Russia is now officially 36 793 confirmed cases of infection with coronavirus, killed 341 people.
